[Commotion-dev] OpenWRT AP not functioning

[Dan Staples]

On Thu 25 Jul 2013 11:31:20 PM EDT, Ben West wrote:
> I did notice approx 1.5 months ago that AA r36682+ did seem to cause
> IBSS-RSN to stop working entirely, at least with nodes that had
> packages hostapd and wpa_supplicant (but NOT wpad) installed.
>
> Right now, I have a collection of nodes running AA r36681 with JUST
> wpad, any they appear to be doing IBSS-RSN adhoc just fine.
>
> Stability issues notwithstanding, is there a reason to go with the
> full hostapd / wpa_supplicant packages?  I noticed you save
> 150-200kBytes in firmware size using wpad instead.
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 8:59 PM, Dan Staples
> <danstaples at opentechinstitute.org
> <mailto:danstaples at opentechinstitute.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Update: turns out building w/ wpa_supplicant and hostapd as separate
>     packages (instead of wpad which combines them into one binary) solves
>     the problem. A newer version of wpad/hostapd/wpa_supplicant is
>     available
>     since we pinned AA to revisions from April, so Will and Jordan
>     experimented with using the new version.
>
>     I just built with OpenWRT pinned @36682 and the packages feed @36537,
>     and can confirm it fixes the problem, while including the newer
>     version
>     of wpad/hostapd/wpa_supplicant. IBSS-RSN works as well.
>
>     Thanks Will and Jordan for doing a lot of hard work investigating this
>     today!
>
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150-200k seems like a good enough reason to go with wpad instead of 
separate hostapd/wpa_supplicant, especially since we are tight on 
space. And since AP mode and IBSS-RSN both work w/ wpad at the 
revisions I tested, we might as well move our pinning up to that, don't 
you think?

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