[Commotion-dev] IBSS-RSN for Linux

[Chris Ritzo]

On 07/17/2013 07:39 PM, Ben West wrote:
> 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
> <mailto: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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We have several of the TP-Link TL-WN821N usb adapters in the office
which could be used for testing.

-- 
Chris Ritzo
Technologist, Open Technology Institute
New America Foundation