WPA Access Point
Sam Leffler
sam at errno.com
Wed Dec 14 11:00:03 PST 2005
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
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