wpa-none through openwrt config

Hello,

I'm trying to get wpa-none happy on my bullet m5's running batman-adv (aa-rc1 with batman-adv 2012.3.0). I can make it work by running wpa_supplicant manually with the correct options but am interested in having it work through the uci config files. Is this possible? The wpa_supplicant.sh script seems to want to force wpa-psk with any options that force wpa_supplicant, which generate a relatively useless supplicant config file for ibss. This also makes wlan0 get the default 1500 MTU.

Here's my "semi-working" wpa_supplicant.conf file, after I increase the MTU then batman talks properly and sees the other node. semi-working because even though batctl o sees the other node it can't ping it unless the psk is commented out.. :-\

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=0
eapol_version=1
ap_scan=2
fast_reauth=1
#IBSS/ad-hoc mode with WPA2/AES encryption

network={
    ssid="batmesh"
    bssid=20:aa:bb:cc:dd:ee
    mode=1
    scan_ssid=1
    frequency=5765
    fixed_freq=1
    mcast_rate=18
    htmode=HT20
    proto=WPA
    key_mgmt=WPA-NONE
    pairwise=NONE
    group=CCMP
    psk="xxxxxxxx"
}

Thanks for any ideas.

Ray Gibson
Future Concepts IS Inc.
909-593-6705 x2096




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Hello Ray,

Have you made sure that WPA-NONE works without batman-adv? It appears that openwrt currently doesn't support WPA-NONE at all driver-wise, at least this bug report suggests it (don't know if its a problem in wpa_supplicant, madwifi, or any other driver):

https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/9190

You can try running WPA-NONE, set some IPs and let the nodes ping each other. If this works, batman-adv should[tm] work too.

Cheers,
Simon

Thank you Simon, I will do some experimenting and report back any results.

Ray Gibson
Future Concepts IS Inc.
909-593-6705 x2096




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