kern/130820: [ndis] wpa_supplicant(8) returns 'no space on device'

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 3/5/09, Erwin Hoffmann <feh at fehcom.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> thanks for following my bug-report:
>
> --On Donnerstag, 5. Maerz 2009 01:43 +0000 linimon at FreeBSD.org wrote:
>
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130820
>
> From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com>
> To: linimon at freebsd.org
> Cc: freebsd-net at freebsd.org, freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: kern/130820: [ndis] wpa_supplicant(8) returns 'no space on
> device'
>
> Yet another invalid bug report.
> OP should use -Dndis and not -Dbsd
>
> --
>
> I did not reply to the comment, because of it's obvious stupidness:
>
> If you go thru the code source for the wpasuplicant (what I did trying to
> fix the bug), you can see that (at least that's true for FreeBSD 6.3) the
> wpasupplicant *only* supports the BSD driver for wlan cards and no other.
>
> That is ok, if the documentation clearly would mention that.
>
> However, it is completely misleading (and shows the ignorance on that
> subject by Paul) even pretending FreeBSD's wpasuplicant can be used with
> the driver option.
>
> In fact, FreeBSD's wpasupplicant implementation is at best half baked.
> It turned out, that one has to consider at least two different ndis drivers:
>
> 1. The generic one, which works for unencrypted and WEP connections (using
> the chipset's internal de/encryption facilities).
> 2. A specific ndis driver different from (1.) used to talk to the wlan
> adapter while encryption and authentication is done by wpasupplicant.
>
> Since (2.) is missing, wpasupplicant tries to use the build-in BSD driver,
> which of course fails with the error message mentioned in my bug report.
>
> In order to follow up this subject, I would recommend to change the
> category of the bug into something like 'documentation bug' straighten up
> the docs and close it.
>
> I'm inclined to set up a wpa reference page with a detailed description of
> this issue and perhaps include some additional patches (wpasupplicant
> latest version for FreeBSD and others). However, currently I'm busy with
> other projects; so it is likely that this will we postponed after the
> summer term.
>
> Further, it would be great (and maybe I ask one of my students) to get the
> ndis driver working for FreeBSD. But again: This will not happen until the
> winter term.

Patches are always welcome but note that mayor development is going in
8.0 CURRENT
and there ndisulator + wpa_supplicant work for me.

wpa_supplicant on 6.3 RELEASE does support ndis driver interface, I come up
to that conclusion looking in cvs but I can not be sure because I never used
wpa_supplicant with 6.3 RELEASE

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/wpa/wpa_supplicant/?only_with_tag=RELENG_6_3_0_RELEASE

-- 
Paul