Hi Emery, 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. > > I am the developer of Solaris WPA. The answer is, under WPA-PSK mode, if you use DHCP to get IP address, you need SUNWcry installed, if you use static IP, not need. As I know, at present, the SUNWcry package is not downloadable to community users. As Valerie said, this situation will be changed when his project putback. >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? > > No, this is caused by the ndiswrapper driver, the ndiswrapper driver doesn't support WPA. -- Quaker >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 > >
