Re: dhclient and wpa_supplicant

On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 05:30:42AM +0000, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> 
> ndis0: <Dell TrueMobile 1400 Dual Band WLAN Mini-PCI Card> mem
> 0xfaff6000-0xfaff7fff irq 9 at device 3.0 on pci2
> ndis0: NDIS API version: 5.0
                           ^^^
You should use NDIS API version 5.1, which comes with the
Windows XP drivers.
> ndis0: Ethernet address: 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
> 
> When I issue an:
> 
> prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0 inet up ssid 'NetworkXcAe5_at_r' wepmode on
> wepkey 0xdeadc0de
> 
> my interface associates fine, giving me this:
> 
> prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe2d:46ce%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         ether 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: associated
                              ^^^^^^
You should get a bssid         here.

>         ssid NetworkXcAe5_at_r bssid 00:12:17:1d:f7:08
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:40-bit txpowmax 100
It might be safer to define a default transmit key, but I'm not sure on
that.
> 
> but when I run:
> 
> prolepsis# dhclient ndis0
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> DHCPDISCOVER on ndis0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> 
> prolepsis# ifconfig ndis0
> ndis0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::290:4bff:fe2d:46ce%ndis0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
>         ether 00:90:4b:2d:46:ce
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
>         status: associated
>         ssid NetworkXcAe5_at_r bssid 00:12:17:1d:f7:08
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:40-bit txpowmax 100
> 
> 
> dhclient doesn't seem to pick it up.  I know this ap is actually
> running a dhcp server; it works on darwin.
> 
> I have read that using ifconfig for wireless (encryption?) is not the
> way of the future, that I should be using wpa_supplicant,
WPA uses a stronger encryption than WEP, ifconfig is just a tool to
configure network interfaces.  In theory it could support WPA.
> 
> Thanks for putting in all this effort.
> 
> Ben  Kaduk

Regards,
Rene
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