iwn(4) and WEP

Adrian Chadd adrian at freebsd.org
Sat Mar 15 04:31:52 UTC 2014


What other drivers are missing this?

Adrian
 On Mar 14, 2014 7:52 PM, "Sean Bruno" <sbruno at ignoranthack.me> wrote:

> It looks like the wpa_supplicant 2.0 import now checks the
> cryptocapability mask when trying to validate WEP usage.
>
> iwn(4) does not populate the mask with any values so wpa_supplicant sees
> a value of 0.
>
> I added the capabilites and can associate, but dhclient cannot get an IP
> from the AP.  I assume then, that once again, I don't know what I'm
> doing.
>
> More or less, this is what I tried:
>
> Index: if_iwn.c
> ===================================================================
> --- if_iwn.c    (revision 263173)
> +++ if_iwn.c    (working copy)
> @@ -564,6 +564,8 @@
>                 | IEEE80211_C_PMGT              /* Station-side power mgmt
> */
>                 ;
>
> +        ic->ic_cryptocaps = IEEE80211_CRYPTO_WEP;
> +
>         /* Read MAC address, channels, etc from EEPROM. */
>         if ((error = iwn_read_eeprom(sc, macaddr)) != 0) {
>                 device_printf(dev, "could not read EEPROM, error %d\n",
>
>
> sean
>
> p.s. Allan Jude came up with a hack for wpa_supplicant that seems to
> work, so I've bcc'd him here to get a patch out of him.
>


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