doing RSN with wpa_supplicant and madwifi

Sam Leffler sam
Sat Jun 26 14:43:15 PDT 2004


On Saturday 26 June 2004 01:16 pm, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:36:11PM +0200, Wilfried Klaebe wrote:
> > start wpa_supplicant
> >
> > _after_ it giving the message "wpa_driver_madwifi_set_wpa: enabled=1",
> > do "iwpriv ath0 wpa 2" to tell madwifi to do WPA2 instead of WPA1.
>
> This (untested) patch might be enough to do this automatically. I don't
> know whether there is a way to configure madwifi driver to do both WPA
> and WPA2 at the same time, but if not, something similar to this patch
> could be useful.

Thanks, there's no reason for the net80211 layer to enforce WPA1 vs. WPA2 for 
station operation.  The iwpriv call is for configuring the authenticator.

	Sam




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