Getting WPA to work on ath(4)

[Wilko Bulte]

On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 04:43:25PM -0400, James Snow wrote..

> On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 10:24:16PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 07:51:01AM +0800, Tai-hwa Liang wrote..
> > > 
> > >   Did you enable WME on the AP?  I remembered that AP would deauth. your
> 
> I also had to disable WME on my ath(4) interface to get the AP to stop
> freaking out.

How do you disable WME?  [ I feel stranded in a maze of acronyms, all
different :-) ]

> > My AP does not have such a selection option.
> 
> Don't know if mine did or not, but I only had to disable it on the
> ath(4) interface to solve my problem.

Ah, ok.

> > The situation seems to have improved now that I have enabled SSID
> > broadcasting on my AP, and at the same time removed the 
> > 
> > scan_ssid=1
> > 
> > from my wpa_supplicant.conf
> 
> I also had to enable SSID broadcasting on my AP to get this setup to
> work. I didn't leave scan_ssid=1 in my .conf file, so I don't know what
> effect it had.

I noticed today that wpa_supplicant renegotiated multiple times even with
SSID broadcasting enabled.  So it was most definitely not the full 
fix to enable broadcasting.

> > > 	80211debug +debug +crypto +auth
> > 
> > Is this a seperate tool I need to get from somewhere?
> 
> It's in /usr/src/tools/tools/ath. It's been very useful for me.

Found it, thanks for the pointer.

> You might also try 'ifconfig ath0 list scan' while wpa_supplicant is
> running and with SSID broadcasting turned _off_ on the AP. I'd be
> curious to see if you have the same problem that I had. (An empty SSID
> string.)
> 
> Hope that helps.
> 
> 
> -Snow
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