iwn(4) and WEP

Adrian Chadd adrian.chadd at gmail.com
Sat Mar 15 04:46:30 UTC 2014


Can you put this up on http or attach as .txt so I can read it in this here
phone mail app?

Adrian
On Mar 14, 2014 9:41 PM, "Allan Jude" <freebsd at allanjude.com> wrote:

> On 03/14/2014 22:52, Sean Bruno 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.
>
> Attached is my (horrible) patch that no one should use. But it is
> available for those of us at the conference who just need something that
> will work for the rest of the weekend.
>
>
>
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