All,
I hope this is the right place to post my query (below), apologies, if
not. I did try TI's own "support" forum (E2E) as well as emailing TI
support directly a couple of times, but, let just say that I didn't
exactly have the best of luck with them...
I have an old-ish smartphone using the above wireless chip and I am
trying to configure it to use MFP (Management Frame Protection), but I
am not having much success with this. The smartphone uses TI-s own
driver (I think it is v4.x of WiLink - the kernel object is called
wlan.ko, the interface is named tiwlan0).
After banging my head against the wall - multiple times - it was
suggested to me that this driver may not have support for MFP (IEEE
802.11w).
I have "forced" MFP on the AP side via ieee80211w=2 (mandatory) and when
I configure supplicant's configuration file (wpa_supplicant.conf) to get
into this mode by including "ieee80211w=2" within the network segment of
that file, on the AP side I get the following error message: "Management
frame protection required, but client did not enable it".
After several unsuccessful attempts to enforce this option and getting
in touch with the wpa_supplicant/hostapd software author, I have been
told that either TI's own driver or the TI-1251 hardware device may not
have support for this.
Could anyone more experienced/knowledgeable clarify this for me please -
is there any way I could enforce this and deploy MFP or am I doomed to
failure?
I am also not completely clear whether I may have more luck if I replace
the TI's own WiLink driver with the "standard" wireless driver (I
haven't yet tried to do that, don't know whether this is possible
either) - provided the WiLink driver does not support MFP.
Thanks in advance for any help!
MZ
> Thanks in advance for any help!
Hehe, another one...
Someone from TI will be along shortly to let you know that <insert name
of random TI engineer/developer> is having mental breakdown/couldn't be
arsed replying (delete as appropriate) and to also thank you for your
patience! You are more likely to get a response from Bill Gates on a
Linux support question than have somebody from TI deal with your
particular query.
FWIW, I don't think MFP is supported in Wilink, maybe it is on wl1251
(the linux-wireless driver), but I couldn't manage to get that driver to
work on Android. I also had the driver supplied by TI and wanted to
replace it for different reasons - if you look at the archives of this
ML you may find why that is. I ended up completely replacing my device
which doesn't have anything related to Texas Instruments (at least not
in terms of wireless anyway) and I am much happier that way - staying as
far as possible from having to deal with a bunch of lazy, uninterested
and self-indulgent "developers" from that company is not anything I'd
recommend to anyone.
In any case, I am hoping your experience is a bit different and wish you
good luck!