On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 8:49 PM, Ben West <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:me@benwest.name">me@benwest.name</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><br></div><div>My present firmware stack (OpenWRT + ath9k in mesh mode) appears to support no layer2 encryption for Nano M5 radios I'm using, i.e. WPA-NONE, WPA, WEP. I'd love to be wrong about that. Madwifi might do it, but then I'd lose nice features of the radio like HT modes.</div>
<div>...</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Hurray! I am indeed wrong about WPA-NONE not working under OpenWRT backfire in IBSS mode. It's great to be wrong.</div><div><a href="https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=133076#p133076">https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=133076#p133076</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>The caveat is that I can not get HT40+/- modes to work with WPA-NONE, apparently since wpa_supplicant expects to get such interface parameters from hostapd in an STA / AP arrangement, whereas all nodes run wpa_supplicant in a ad-hoc mode. Indeed, I'd like to be wrong again here. ;)</div>
<div><br></div><div>Still, WPA-NONE does work for OpenWRT Backfire + ath9k in IBSS mode.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div>Ben West</div><div><a href="mailto:me@benwest.name" target="_blank">me@benwest.name</a></div><br>