6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re boots

[Kirk Davis]

Ahh... You are right Sam.   I was trying to think of all the things I did to
get it working and I did forget the wlan_tkip module that I load at startup.


Yes,  The main problem I had with the iwi driver was the firmware.  Is it
possible for someone to MFC the devd.conf changes to support this card?
Once you let devd handle the firmware then dhclient works a lot better for
roaming.

---- Kirk

-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Leffler [mailto:sam at errno.com] 
Sent: July 26, 2005 10:57 AM
To: Kirk Davis
Cc: 'Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH'; 'freebsd-current at freebsd.org'
Subject: Re: 6-BETA1 iwi + wpa_supplicant fails, and sometimes silently re
boots

Kirk Davis wrote:
> I am using the iwi driver with the wpa_supplicant for both WPA-PSK and
> WAP/802.11x. It was a little tricky to get working (mostly due to the
> firmware) but I now have to working great.  I am in the process of
creating
> a document to post on the steps that I did to get it working.
> 
> Did you recompile the wpa_supplicant in the base system?  The
wpa_supplicant
> does not have TKIP support unless you add
ENABLE_WPA_SUPPLICANT_EAPOL="YES"
> into /etc/make.conf and recompile.  You will also need to install the new
> firmware for the driver that can be found here:
> http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/

Huh?  TKIP is a crypto module and is in the kernel (wlan_tkip).  You've 
enabled EAPOL protocol support which is necessary for using 802.1x to 
communicate with a back-end server such as FreeRADIUS.

I suspect the key thing is to get the necessary firwmare support in the 
card.

	Sam