William Wanders On 12/20/07 04:42 wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 12:04:22AM +0100, William Wanders wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:18:45PM -0800, Garrett D'Amore wrote: >> > ... > >>> Anyway, I'm not aware of any effort to port to hostap to OpenSolaris... >>> there's still a lot of work to finish up with STA functionality (e.g. >>> WPA and WPA2 Enterprise modes, more drivers, etc.) before the project >>> team is likely to have cycles to worry about hostap. >>> >>> HOWEVER, the beauty of OpenSolaris is that the code is out there. If >>> someone else wants to undertake the work to start up such a project, I >>> am sure that they would find it easy to get sponsorship from both the >>> Laptop and the Appliance communities. :-) >>> >> I will also have to take a closer look at this one ;-). >> > After a first look at OpenSolaris' net80211/ath code I decided to try > and see if i could get some of the basic hostap stuff over from the FreeBSD > net80211 stack. I'm now running into a problem getting probe responses out > on to the air. It seems the ath driver has problems finding the > temporary/fake_adhoc transmission node entry (ieee80211_find_txnode). > >From the code it looks like any frame to a temporary/fake_adhoc node entry > will result in frame drop when it comes to the output queue. At least > for the ath driver. Solaris net80211 supports bss/adhoc mode, while Solaris ath only supports bss mode. You need to add ap mode support to both net80211 and ath.
Judy
