[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#513817: wpasupplicant: ad-hoc broken

[Richard Scherping]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 0.6.6-2
Severity: normal


I am trying to set up a WPA-enabled ad-hoc network between two Debian Lenny
boxes, one with rt73usb WiFi on 2.6.27.4, the other with iwl4965 on 2.6.28.

My wpa_supplicant config:

network={
 ssid="MySSID"
 mode=1
 proto=WPA
 key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
 pairwise=NONE
 group=TKIP
 psk="MyPSK"
}

Although I specified mode=1, wpa_supplicant sets the WiFi device to managed
mode and thus the connection does not work. This happens with both
wpasupplicant package 0.6.4 (lenny/sid) and 0.6.6 (experimental).

If there is any workaround, please tell me!

Richard

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.28 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.110      add and remove users and groups
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.1-5    simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libpcsclite1                  1.4.102-1  Middleware to access a smart card 
ii  libreadline5                  5.2-3      GNU readline and history libraries
ii  libssl0.9.8                   0.9.8g-15  SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl      <none>     (no description available)
ii  wpagui                        0.6.6-2    graphical user interface for wpa_s

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