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DEPRECATED, see commotion-client - Python implementation of core commotion functions for Linux
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IBSS-RSN Support #5

Closed jheretic closed 10 years ago

jheretic commented 11 years ago

We need to support IBSS-RSN. This is more about facilitating upstream support than anything we need to implement in our own software.

technosopher commented 11 years ago

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Here's some more background information on the problem, which I realized I never formally captured anywhere:

Whether or not IBSS-RSN is supported on a given piece of hardware is primarily a function of a (a) the wireless driver in use and (b) the version of wpasupplicant installed on the machine, which must be both greater than 1.0 and have been compiled with the IBSS_RSN=y flag set. More details:

A) We have information about driver compatibility in various places in our installation instructions; I'm not sure there's much more we can do about that side of things at this point.

B) With regard to wpasupplicant, we have somewhat more control. A custom-compiled version of wpa_supplicant with the correct compile flag set is provided by commotion_wpa_supplicant for those OSes whose default package is out of date. Additionally, we have just reopened an old bug in Debian testing that will hopefully result in the IBSS_RSN=y flag being included in all future versions of the package. (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=678147).

Finally, versions of Ubuntu => 13.04 have working versions of wpasupplicant out-of-the-box.

Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042

On 10/11/2013 02:11 PM, Josh King wrote:

We need to support IBSS-RSN. This is more about facilitating upstream support than anything we need to implement in our own software.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-linux-py/issues/5.

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jheretic commented 11 years ago

Cool. I knew this was partly addressed, I mostly just wanted a place where we could make the status clear. I agree we have no influence over point A except for documentation. I'll leave this open pending news on that Debian bug from point B, other than that I see it primarily as a means of having clear requirements documentation. Thanks!

critzo commented 10 years ago

@technosopher @natmey Can this issue be closed out? Nothing that the pull request was tested and branch merged. I do recall mention last week of upstream support for IBSS-RSN. Is that right?

technosopher commented 10 years ago

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This is an ongoing issue, which we'll have to periodically revisit as drivers and parts of the network manager stack are updated. So we can close it to indicate that a prototype implementation is in fact working, but we'll be working on various aspects of IBSS_RSN for a while to come.

Jordan McCarthy Open Technology Institute | New America Foundation Public Key: 0xC08D8042 | 4A61 3D39 4125 127D 65EA DDC2 BFBD A2E9 C08D 8042

On 12/09/2013 10:19 AM, critzo wrote:

@technosopher https://github.com/technosopher @natmey https://github.com/natmey Can this issue be closed out? Nothing that the pull request was tested and branch merged. I do recall mention last week of upstream support for IBSS-RSN. Is that right?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub https://github.com/opentechinstitute/commotion-linux-py/issues/5#issuecomment-30139943.

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