Hallo Larry,

Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Denis V Seleznyov wrote:
>> On Sunday, 06 May 2007 04:11:49 Denis V Seleznyov wrote:
>>> Ehud Gavron wrote:
>>>> The bcm43xx modules reports associated... scanning... associated... with
>>>> another message in the middle, about once every half second without
>>>> stopping.
>>>> The dmesg shows radio on, link not ready, link associated, radio off,
>>>> [repeats]
>>> I have similar problem with 4311 (Dell Inspiron 640m with 1390
>>> mini-wireless module). I didn't noticed neither any problems with kernel
>>> module inserting or removing, nor kernel panic.
>> 
>>> Network authentication: WPA-PSK with TKIP encryption
>> 
>> I don't know how it did happen, but CONFIG_IEEE80211_CRYPT_TKIP was not set.
>> 
>> Thus, it is bug in wpa_supplicant or softmac code rather then in bcm43xx.
>
> This is an operator problem, not a bug. Neither the bcm43xx nor the
> softmac code has any way to know that you wish to use TKIP
> authentication.

Doesn't wpa_supplicant tell softmac it wants TKIP? Then softmac can
report it doesn't support TKIP.

Bye, Jörg.
-- 
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werden.                                       (Hermann Hesse)
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