[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#678147: wpasupplicant: Consider enabling IBSS RSN support

[Nicolas Cavallari]

Package: wpasupplicant
Version: 1.0-2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Please consider enabling support for IBSS RSN, that is to say, to
enable the use of standard compliant WPA2 in Ad-Hoc mode.  It is
useful when you are stuck with a broken cable and two laptops with
iwl3945 cards on it (which don't support AP mode) yet want a properly
secured network.

The IBSS RSN support is still a tad experimental, but have been there
for a long time and is quite usable. More and more linux drivers are
supporting it (check yours with iw phy | grep IBSS RSN). I haven't fully
checked for kfreebsd, but it doesn't appear to support IBSS RSN.

To use it, a block like this one can be used:

ap_scan=2
network={
	ssid="adhoc wpa2"
	mode=1
	freq=2412
	mode=1
	key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
	proto=RSN
	pairwise=CCMP
	group=CCMP
	psk="very secret"
}

(while wpa_supplicant without IBSS RSN support accepts
this configuration without errors, it will not work)

Enabling IBSS RSN is as easy as adding the
CONFIG_IBSS_RSN build configuration option:

--- debian/config/wpasupplicant/linux
+++ debian/config/wpasupplicant/linux
@@ -468,3 +468,5 @@
 
 # XXX: Debian #650834
 CONFIG_BGSCAN_SIMPLE=y
+
+CONFIG_IBSS_RSN=y



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages wpasupplicant depends on:
ii  adduser           3.113+nmu3
ii  initscripts       2.88dsf-27
ii  libc6             2.13-33
ii  libdbus-1-3       1.6.0-1
ii  libnl-3-200       3.2.7-2
ii  libnl-genl-3-200  3.2.7-2
ii  libpcsclite1      1.8.3-3
ii  libssl1.0.0       1.0.1c-3
ii  lsb-base          4.1+Debian7

wpasupplicant recommends no packages.

Versions of packages wpasupplicant suggests:
pn  libengine-pkcs11-openssl  <none>
pn  wpagui                    <none>

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