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Bug 757823 - wifi: add new NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_ADHOC_RSN capability
wifi: add new NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_ADHOC_RSN capability
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: NetworkManager
Classification: Platform
Component: Wi-Fi
git master
Other Linux
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Assigned To: NetworkManager maintainer(s)
NetworkManager maintainer(s)
Depends on:
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Reported: 2015-11-09 16:04 UTC by Jiri Klimes
Modified: 2020-11-12 14:26 UTC
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Description Jiri Klimes 2015-11-09 16:04:23 UTC 
From https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=756081#c13:

nl80211 reports whether the device supports RSN-IBSS through the wiphy attribute NL80211_ATTR_SUPPORT_IBSS_RSN.  We should check that and add a new NM_WIFI_DEVICE_CAP_ADHOC_RSN capability which nmcli could then detect.
Comment 1 Dan Williams 2015-11-09 16:55:06 UTC 
If we had this capability, clients could figure out whether to use IBSS/AdHoc RSN (and key_mgmt="wpa-psk") with the device when it doesn't support AP mode.  Otherwise we have to use WEP, because kernel IBSS/AdHoc WPA support is broken and has been disabled everywhere.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2020-11-12 14:26:45 UTC 
bugzilla.gnome.org is being shut down in favor of a GitLab instance. 
We are closing all old bug reports and feature requests in GNOME Bugzilla which have not seen updates for a long time.

If you still use NetworkManager and if you still see this bug / want this feature in a recent and supported version of NetworkManager, then please feel free to report it at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/-/issues/

Thank you for creating this report and we are sorry it could not be implemented (workforce and time is unfortunately limited).