Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and not WEP or this is a bug in the driver?

[Yuri]

Pietro Cerutti wrote:
> It wouldn't make sense. Flags are used to specify capabilities of the
>   
> interface, not things provided by the operating system.
>
>   
This is very confusing to user.
User is assumed to have this bit of knowledge that WEP flag actually
means only hardware support, not support in general.

On another note WEP is actually supported by interface but driver authors
didn't bother to use it. So WEP flag doesn't represent actual 
capabilities of
the interface and this is again confusing.

When I type 'ifconfig <iface> ...' I am mostly interested what can I use 
from
that side, not what is supported by hardware. Is there any way to know 
what is
logically supported by network interface as passed to 'ifconfig' vs. what
is supported by hardware interface?

Yuri