On 2023/10/06 21:25, haywirrr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> TL/DR: I am requesting wpa_supplicant be updated to the latest version
> (2.10) and also have a patch applied that is available for FreeBSD.
> 
> I was wondering if it would be possible to have wpa_supplicant updated
> to the latest version (2.10). I tried to compile this myself from ports
> but it seems there is an issue with the OpenBSD driver. Correcting
> the issues with this driver are beyond my current capabilities, hence
> the request.

There's no point starting a second thread for this, you already asked
on the other one which has more information.

> Ultimately, I need to be able to run a current version of
> wpa_supplicant to be able to authenticate (802.1X) against my ISP for
> Internet access. As it stands now, my ISP only supports TLS 1.0 for
> the 802.1X authentication, so I am having to build wpa_supplicant using
> OpenSSL 1.1, since wpa_supplicant 2.9 hangs with OpenSSL 3.1 during the
> authentication proces.

Your ISP does need to sort that out.

> Also, the FreeBSD developers have created a patch for wpa_supplicant
> that allows for direct interaction with VLAN 0 (see the link below).
> This functionality fits perfectly for my use case of wpa_supplicant,
> but I would prefer to stay on OpenBSD if at all possible.
> 
> Thank you for any guidance/assistance/consideration on this matter!
> 
> FreeBSD VLAN 0 patch: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D40442

I'm not ok with adding that as a patch.

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