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

[Nicolas Cavallari]

On 19/06/2012 18:49, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote:
> Thanks for your verbose bugreport and usage description, this really
> helps.
>
> Apparently the preferred way to handle this is Wi-Fi P2P[1], a
> relatively new feature Intel and Atheros are working on for exactly
> this use case, because IBSS has a couple of design drawbacks beyond
> difficult encryption options (no aggregation support, requires very
> recent kernels (I'm not sure if 3.2 is sufficient) and several more).
> Unfortunately we didn't enable Wi-Fi P2P in wpasupplicant either…

3.2 was sufficient for IBSS RSN with iwl3945, that's what i used. I know
that more recent kernel add IBSS RSN support to more devices.
As for P2P, i'm not sure if it is supported for my cards; with iw phy,
one of them says it supports P2P frames for tx and rx but the other one
only support it for rx. And none of them has P2P in the supported
interface modes. A patch from Johannes Berg[1] suggest that only iwl3945
with PAN support may do P2P,
but one of my two card doesn't have PAN support. So it feels like i will
never be able to do P2P with these two cards.

> While I have tentatively enabled CONFIG_IBSS_RSN in the packaging
> Vcs[2], I can't guarantee that this will remain in the next package
> version to be uploaded to the archive (therefore not tagging as
> pending, yet). This change will not be made for wheezy though, it's
> just too late for that.

Thanks for the consideration anyway.

Regards.
Nicolas Cavallari

[1]
http://johannes.sipsolutions.net/patches/old/all/2011-01-05-10%3A08/008-iwlwifi-p2p-support.patch
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