[Commotion-admin] [commotion-linux-py] IBSS-RSN Support (#5)

[technosopher]

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Here's some more background information on the problem, which I
realized I never formally captured anywhere:

Whether or not IBSS-RSN is supported on a given piece of hardware is
primarily a function of a (a) the wireless driver in use and (b) the
version of wpasupplicant installed on the machine, which must be both
greater than 1.0 and have been compiled with the IBSS_RSN=y flag set.
More details:

A) We have information about driver compatibility in various places in
our installation instructions; I'm not sure there's much more we can
do about that side of things at this point.

B) With regard to wpasupplicant, we have somewhat more control.  A
custom-compiled version of wpa_supplicant with the correct compile
flag set is provided by commotion_wpa_supplicant for those OSes whose
default package is out of date.  Additionally, we have just reopened
an old bug in Debian testing that will hopefully result in the
IBSS_RSN=y flag being included in all future versions of the package.
 (See
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678147).

Finally, versions of Ubuntu => 13.04 have working versions of
wpasupplicant out-of-the-box.



Jordan McCarthy
Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation
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On 10/11/2013 02:11 PM, Josh King wrote:
> We need to support IBSS-RSN. This is more about facilitating
> upstream support than anything we need to implement in our own
> software.
> 
> — Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub 
> <https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-linux-py/issues/5>.
>
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