WPA Access Point

[Sam Leffler]

Neal Nelson wrote:
> Has anyone got FreeBSD 6.0 to work as a wireless access point using WPA?
> 
> I'm running a Prism 2.5 based wireless card and have been using it as an 
> access point for years. It stills works OK but I installed the hostapd 
> port in order to add WPA authentication. Unfortunately this doesn't seem 
> to work as it complains when I run it as follows:
> 
> bsd_configure_wpa: group key cipher=AES-CCM (3)
> ioctl[SIOCS80211]: Invalid argument
> 
> I'm not sure whether hostapd is configured right as there seems to be no 
> documentation for it.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this or am I barking up the wrong tree as 
> far as WPA is concerned?

The above error is likely because you don't have wlan_ccmp 
loaded/configured.  However

ifconfig wi0 list caps

should indicate the driver lacks support for WPA1/WPA2.  Guess it would 
be good for hostpad to check that.

	Sam