Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 07:36:09 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi@yahoo.com> Cc: Freebsd Wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ifconfig(8) and WPA functionality Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmom=SnwWdazciJdOStcfLibrOwN3Hb2NwF436VJ-gq2i2g@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com> References: <274363496.3274563.1480494823102.ref@mail.yahoo.com> <274363496.3274563.1480494823102@mail.yahoo.com>
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hiya, nope - we're sticking with wpa_supplicant driving the wpa / 802.1x state machine for now. -a On 30 November 2016 at 00:33, Fehmi Noyan ISI via freebsd-wireless <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org> wrote: > hiya, > > I have been studying OpenBSD's implementation of ifconfig utility and realized that many of the WPA functionality is provided by the OpenBSD's ifconfig utility. > > Functionality is implemented as ioctl calls (SIOCS80211WPAPARMS / SIOGS80211WPAPARMS) > > and, as far as I have been told, is enough to provide basic wifi connectivity and likes. > > Has something similar (embedding WPA functionality into ifconfig(8)) been considered for FreeBSD before? This, of course, is a design matter than being a coding issue. > > Thanks > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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