iwn(4) and WEP
Allan Jude
freebsd at allanjude.com
Sat Mar 15 22:43:57 UTC 2014
On 2014-03-15 13:46, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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Here is the web url for my patch (which no one should use):
http://www.allanjude.com/bsd/wpa_supplicant.wep.patch
Here is the patch rpaulo sent us on IRC:
http://people.freebsd.org/~rpaulo/wpa.patch
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