[Commotion-dev] IBSS-RSN for Linux

[Ben West]

I can confirm a TL-Link WN-TL821Nv3 USB adapter under Ubuntu v12.10
successfully came up in adhoc, albeit I had to fiddle with things so that
the USB adapter would be named 'wlan0' for commotion-mesh-applet to be
happy.  Driver used was ath9k_htc, suggesting that other machines using
this driver may work.

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 6:32 PM, Dan Staples <
danstaples at opentechinstitute.org> wrote:

> On Wed 17 Jul 2013 01:48:53 PM EDT, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
> > Catch-22: Wireless drivers for the fleet of netbooks don't support
> > Ad-hoc mode on 13.04 - but 13.04 is required for IBSS-RSN support.
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bcmwl/+bug/1160471
> > (Neither the built-in or the alternate driver work, albeit for
> > different reasons).
> >
> > Next steps:
> >
> > Try to install 13.04 on a non-BCM4313 chipset (laptops/adapters)
> >
> > Try Debian
> >
> > Custom-compile wpa-supplicant on 12.04 with CONFIG_IBSS_RSN=y
> >
> >
> >
> > Jordan McCarthy
> > Technical Program Associate | Open Technology Institute | New America
> > Foundation
> > My Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D
> > 8042
> >
> > On 07/16/2013 02:10 PM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
> >> I just realized... if you look closely at the package versions to
> >> which this fix was ostensibly applied, they're all designated as
> >> quantal packages - meaning that 12.04 may not actually support
> >> ibss-rsn at all.
> >>
> >> I have some secondary evidence for this conclusion as well: when I
> >> configured an ad-hoc connection and tried to run <ibss-rsn
> >> 02:CA:FF:EE:BA:BE> to initiate a handshake, it routinely returned
> >> "UNKNOWN COMMAND", no matter how it was invoked.  So I'm guessing
> >> the presence of this command in 12.10's version of wpa_cli could
> >> just be a placeholder.
> >>
> >> (Just for the heck of it, I also tried <preauthenticate
> >> 02:CA:FF:EE:BA:BE>, which yielded:
> >>
> >> <2>RSN: failed to get master session key from pre-auth EAPOL state
> >> machines
> >>> <2>RSN: pre-authentication with 02:ca:ff:ee:ba:be failed
> >>
> >>
> >> So I suppose I should get a machine upgraded to 13.04.
> >>
> >>> Jordan
> >>
> >>
> >> Jordan McCarthy Technical Program Associate | Open Technology
> >> Institute | New America Foundation My Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61
> >> 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042
> >>
> >> On 07/15/2013 08:31 PM, Jordan McCarthy wrote:
> >>
> >>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1046918
> >>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
>
> Moving to the dev list...
>
> I remember trying to get ad-hoc working on those damn netbooks when I
> was compiling Commotion-OpenWRT for x86. It seemed like a lost cause,
> with those broadcom drivers.
>
> The requirements might just have to be using a certain version of Debian
> (I would suggest we stay away from being Ubuntu-specific, given their
> recent bad track record regarding privacy), AND you must have a chipset
> whose driver supports ad-hoc mode...
>
>
> --
> Dan Staples
>
> Open Technology Institute
> https://commotionwireless.net
> --
> Dan Staples
>
> Open Technology Institute
> https://commotionwireless.net
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