Hi, I think I have an explanation for the unresolved zd1211rw failure reports (rello, remco, a couple of others) that are floating around.
With zd1211rw, my ZD1211B device cannot connect to my network when encryption is enabled. Well, it can associate, but data tx/rx does not work. The vendor driver works OK. Remember that zd1211rw does all encryption and decryption in software (for now), whereas the vendor driver does it all in hardware. My other device (an original ZD1211) works fine, but I'm not so sure that this is a ZD1211 vs ZD1211B thing. I investigated the problem with my ZD1211B. The software-encrypted frame is being sent, is being acknowledged, and encrypted data frames are sent in response. However, the ZD1211B does not "see" the ACK (gives me a retry failed interrupt), and does not see any of the response frames (at least does not upload them to the host in any way). The reason that association works (which obviously involves frame exchage) is because management frames are unencrypted. Also, connecting to unencrypted networks works just fine. I have emailed a detailed report to ZyDAS. I don't think they will do anything with it. The best approach to solving this is for us to do encryption/decryption in hardware, which is done simply by uploading the keys to the device and marking non-management frames to be encrypted (I think) -- any volunteers? ;) Any testing appreciated: does zd1211rw work with your ZD1211B device when connecting to encrypted networks? (remember to test more than just associating...) Daniel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Zd1211-devs mailing list - http://zd1211.ath.cx/ Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/zd1211-devs
