Bug 512892

Summary:	net-wireless/wpa_supplicant: Enable "CONFIG_IBSS_RSN" by default or add a USE flag
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	jannis <kripton>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) <gurligebis>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	mrueg, zerochaos
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description jannis 2014-06-10 14:20:54 UTC

wpa_supplicant supports Ad-Hoc networks (IBSS mode) with WPA2 only if the buildtime-config option "CONFIG_IBSS_RSN" is enabled. Otherwise, it starts up without errors, the devices pair (join the same Cell) but fail to communicate in strange ways (one way is working, the other not).
The example (run-time) config also describes how to configure things but fails to mention the build-time config option that is not set by the ebuild.

I manually set the option in the config, merged the package and now my Ad-Hoc WiFi is working as expected.

Debian Linux enabled that option but a dev commented that IBSS with RSN is possibly superseded by "Wi-Fi Direct" (which is enabled using the "p2p" USE flag): https://bugs.debian.org/678147

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Bjarke Istrup Pedersen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2014-06-13 14:56:23 UTC

Fixed in 2.2-r1 , thanks for reporting :-)