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Re: [PATCH] Fix breakage on WEP for cards that rely on software decoding

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On Tue, 2007-08-28 at 23:45 +0100, Adam Baker wrote:

> When using rt2x00 with WEP we get continuous reports of "RX WEP frame, but
> no key set" without this patch. As the rt2x00 driver currently relies on
> mac80211 to perform the decryption I believe it would be incorrect for the driver
> to set IEEE80211_HW_WEP_INCLUDE_IV. Also reading some of the code
> comments it appears that even for a card that does HW decryption there are
> circumstances where the SW decryption will get used and in those cases
> we need to set the key.
> 
> The patch was generated against the rt2x00 git but looks like it applies to
> the current wireless-dev everything.

This seems correct but it looks like we need to fix a few more instances
of similar checks, especially those involving
"KEY_FLAG_UPLOADED_TO_HARDWARE". I'll take a look.

johannes

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