Thanks Valerie, A gentleman by the name of Quaker Fang, who says he is a developer responsible for this function on the project stated unequivocally that it is not currently possible to use WPA with the Broadcom 4318 chip in my HP Pavillion DV5115nr. I have decided to stop pursuing getting this working until a fix is provided in a build later this year. Until then I will just use Windows XP.
Thank you very much for being attentive to my questions! Emery Rudolph Sr. System Administrator Office of Information Technology University of Maryland University College Phn: 301-985-7447 Email: Erudolph at umuc.edu http://www.umuc.edu Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: > Hi Emery - > > So, you do not have strong crypto enabled on this > machine. YOu didn't send the result of "ls /kernel/crypto/sparcv9" > or "ls /kernel/crypto/", but I'm guessing you have never > installed these packages. > > That being the case, you don't need to "upgrade" them, either. > > NOw, it's possible that the WPA driver depends on the stronger > crypto - you'll need to ask whomever works on that code, > this is probably not the right forum. > > Hope that helps! > > Valerie > > On Fri, 22 Feb 2008, Super-User wrote: > >> Valerie, >> >> I booted back up to Solaris. Here is the output you requested. >> ------------------------------------ >> spica / -> cryptoadm list >> >> User-level providers: >> Provider: /usr/lib/security/$ISA/pkcs11_kernel.so >> Provider: /usr/lib/security/$ISA/pkcs11_softtoken.so >> >> Kernel software providers: >> des >> aes >> arcfour >> blowfish >> sha1 >> sha2 >> md5 >> rsa >> swrand >> ecc >> md4 >> >> Kernel hardware providers: >> ----------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> Valerie Bubb Fenwick wrote: >>> HI Emery - >>> >>> They are part of the closed-bin tar files. Did you install those? >>> >>> It is easy to see if they are there. Please send me the output of >>> $ cryptoadm list >>> >>> and >>> $ ls /kernel/crypto/ (or ls /kernel/crypto/sparcv9 if your on sparc) >>> >>> and I can tell you whether or not they are installed. >>> >>> I don't know enough about the behaviour of hte WPA driver, though. >>> >>> You can find the on-closed-bins tar files here: >>> http://dlc.sun.com/osol/on/downloads/current/ >>> >>> which will contain the contents of the SUNWcry & SUNWcryr packages. >>> >>> Also, the more appropriate alias for these type of questions >>> is probably crypto-discuss at opensolaris.org :) >>> >>> Valerie >>> >>> On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Emery Rudolph wrote: >>> >>>> Hello Valerie, >>>> >>>> There is so much conflicting information regarding this matter, I >>>> am glad to speak to a primary developer. My confusion is that I >>>> keep hearing that I would need to upgrade these packages, but I do >>>> not have them installed at all. I have read some information saying >>>> it was included with the build and others saying I need to download >>>> and install them. Can you tell me which is correct? If I do not >>>> have them installed can you send the the exact link to the packages. >>>> >>>> Additionally, would you know if the lack of these packages would >>>> result in WPA WAPs showing up as WEP in the dladm scan-wifi output? >>>> >>>> Emery >>>> >>>> >>>> Hi Emery - >>>> >>>> Yes, you do need to upgrade the SUNWcry/SUNWcryr packages everytime >>>> you upgrade >>>> your system. These are available in the closed-bin tar bundle, >>>> associated >>>> with each build. I'm not sure, specifically, how this affects WPA >>>> driver, but >>>> I do know that changes in the core crypto components often require >>>> all the >>>> modules to be updated as well for other tasks. >>>> >>>> This is documented here: >>>> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/crypto/Documentation/sunwcry/ >>>> >>>> This will soon be changing, as I am wrapping up a project to pull >>>> strong >>>> crypto into the base OS. >>>> >>>> hope that helps, >>>> >>>> Valerie >>>> >>> >>> Valerie >> > > Valerie
