Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On 02/22/2010 02:03 PM, Yan Seiner wrote: I'm trying to get the b43 driver working on a Linksys WRTSL54GS router. It's running Openwrt with the 2.6.32 kernel. The good news is that the driver picks up a lot of APs with ease, far more than the binary blob. The bad news is that I can't get encryption working. The output from iwlist scan is here: https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=103469#p103469 I can't configure it to use WPA-PSK or WPA-PSK2; it simply doesn't see encryption. I don't have any WEP APs around so I can't test around those. It connects to open APs quite well. (I haven't tested it much as the open AP is one of my neighbors, and I really don't want to steal his broadband.) I was hoping someone else would answer your mail, but as no one has come forward, I will try. I am not an expert on openWRT. I am using the version of Kamikaze with a 2.4 kernel on a WRT54GL, but the firmware is out of the box. What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? Larry ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
Yan Seiner wrote: On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan Hi, Someone reports that the station mode is not working for him in OpenWRT with ath9k driver after the last update of compat-wireless in OpenWRT. It was reported in https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6712 probably this is not an issue in the ath9k/b43 driver but in some other part of OpenWRT. Please try if it helps using an older version of compat-wireless or using an older version of the hostapd/wpa-supplicant combination. (Just go back some revisions in the svn for that directories) Hauke signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
Re: b43 and WPA-PSK
On Tue, February 23, 2010 8:38 pm, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: Yan Seiner wrote: On Tue, February 23, 2010 4:57 pm, Larry Finger wrote: What I do know is that the BCM4318 does work with WPA/WPA2, although my device is Cardbus format in an old laptop. Using Broadcom's proprietary firmware, as you seem to be doing, the encryption/decryption is done in the hardware. The issues seems to be with the version of wireless utils in the latest openwrt snapshot. Sure looked like a driver issue,though. I'm a little confused on your usage of the device. As an AP, I see no need to scan. Are you using it as a station, or as a wireless bridge? In these modes, would not the bridging code to eth0 get in the way? I am using it in STA mode. I set up a separate network for the wireless and do not use bridging. I have to wan ports in effect - one for the wireless and one for wired. I don't use the wired port. It works quite well (or did, until I tried the b43 drivers at which point I also got the broken version of iwconfig/iwlist.) --Yan Hi, Someone reports that the station mode is not working for him in OpenWRT with ath9k driver after the last update of compat-wireless in OpenWRT. It was reported in https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6712 probably this is not an issue in the ath9k/b43 driver but in some other part of OpenWRT. Please try if it helps using an older version of compat-wireless or using an older version of the hostapd/wpa-supplicant combination. (Just go back some revisions in the svn for that directories) Yes, that is the conclusion I came to. I opened a ticket earlier today. https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6732 I'll attach it to the other ticket. -- If you have eight hours to chop down a tree spend six sharpening your axe. --Abraham Lincoln ___ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
