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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