#651: unable to associate to AP using WEP with madwifi-ng
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Reporter: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Owner: mentor
Type: defect | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Milestone: version 0.9.x -
progressive release candidate phase
Component: madwifi: other | Version: trunk
Resolution: | Keywords: associating fails
Patch_attached: 1 |
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Comment (by [EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I'm seeing the same with my Access Points. After debugging I came to the
conclusion that the following is the reason for the problems:
- when setting the WEP key using iwconfig, the key is stored and the
privacy flag is set
- the authentication behaviour is unchanged
- my access point insists on shared-key auth, while the driver insists on
open auth
The result is a continued authentication failure.
It seems to me there are two possible solutions:
1. change ieee80211_ioctl_siwencode (ieee80211_wireless.c) to set the
authentication method.
2. change ieee80211_send_mgmt (ieee80211_output.c) to do shared key auth
if the AP requests it depending on (vap->iv_flags & IEEE80211_F_PRIVACY)
rather than vap->iv_bss->ni_authmode.
I'll attach a patch that is working for me which does the first. If it is
currently working this means the patch might break existing setups, so the
second might be better as it alows for both.
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Ticket URL: <http://madwifi.org/ticket/651>
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Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity
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