| Message ID | 20161016223933.9484-1-linus.luessing@c0d3.blue (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | Accepted |
| Delegated to: | Johannes Berg |
| Headers | show |
On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote: > For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the > more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext. Makes sense, applied. > Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the > configuration > files and information provided in > Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp > licant.conf} > This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration files that we don't test for otherwise. johannes
On Mon, Oct 17, 2016 at 11:39:04AM +0200, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Mon, 2016-10-17 at 00:39 +0200, Linus Lüssing wrote: > > For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the > > more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext. > > Makes sense, applied. > > > Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the > > configuration > > files and information provided in > > Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supp > > licant.conf} > > > This less so, we even have a few test cases we run regularly, but I > don't know. Maybe there's something special in those configuration > files that we don't test for otherwise. I investigated a little further and the problem is probably that I'm running a minimal Linux kernel which was compiled without CONFIG_CFG80211_WEXT :-). Anyways, thanks for applying the patch! Regards, Linus
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README index 24ac91d..3566a72 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README +++ b/Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README @@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ modprobe mac80211_hwsim hostapd hostapd.conf # Run wpa_supplicant (station) for wlan1 -wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf +wpa_supplicant -Dnl80211 -iwlan1 -c wpa_supplicant.conf More test cases are available in hostap.git:
For mac80211_hwsim interfaces, suggest to use wpa_supplicant with the more modern, netlink based driver instead of wext. Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue> --- Actually, I wasn't even able to make a connection with the configuration files and information provided in Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/{README,hostapd.conf/wpa_supplicant.conf} Changing -Dwext to -Dnl80211 helped and made the WPA-PSK connection with mac80211_hwsim interfaces work for me. --- Documentation/networking/mac80211_hwsim/README | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)