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Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945/mac80211 cannot connect to dynamic wep network

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On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 15:29 +0200, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 11:07 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> 
> > Could you educate me a bit more about the problem if you've got a bit of
> > time?
> 
> As much as I've understood, the problem comes from the privacy mismatch
> function returning non-zero. This means that wpa_supplicant doesn't set
> IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_802_1X because if you check the function then the
> key_manegement_enabled variable is checked first thing.
> 
> > A normal Dynamic WEP configuration should result in wpa_supplicant
> > sending IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT with IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT_802_1X since ieee8021x is
> > specified in the wpa_supplicant config.  Is this not happening here?  I
> > seem to be seeing that wpa_supplicant _should_ be setting key
> > management, and mac80211 _should_ be returning 0 from
> > ieee80211_privacy_mismatch() because key management has been set, and
> > therefore this should succeed...
> 
> Yes, it seems that wpa_supplicant is not setting key management
> properly, possibly because internally it only translates two of the key
> management possibilities into the right wext state.

Ok, I'll try to track it down starting with wpa_supplicant then.

Dan


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