On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > It doesn't matter, the management packets are not encrypted either way.
> >=20
> > johannes

> As of the current version of bcm43xx (1051) and the current softmac
> revision in the git-tree it _does_ matter. I definitly cannot
> associate to any AP if I = set the key prior to doing iwconfig eth2
> essid BLA .

> I'm doing
> 
> ifconfig eth2 up
> iwconfig eth2 rate 11M
> iwconfig eth2 enc restricted <key>
> iwconfig eth2 essid <essid>
> 
> and nothing happens; if I do
> 
> ifconfig eth2 up
> iwconfig eth2 rate 11M
> iwconfig eth2 essid <essid>
> 
> it associates almost immediately, then I do
> 
> iwconfig eth2 enc restricted <key>
> dhclient3 eth2
> 
> and it does work.

I can confirm exactly this behaviour with a Al PowerBook G4. Works
fine only if you set the key *after* associating. If you set the key
first you get the following errors in dmesg:

SoftMAC: Authentication response received from 00:90:4b:40:68:6a but no queue 
item exists.
ieee80211: eth2: Unknown management packet: 0

but this happens some time after the initial "ifconfig eth2 up"

cheers, Phil

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