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Re: mac80211 / iwl3945 + dynamic wep (again)

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Hi,

> First  sorry for the late report, the patches from the old thread fixed 
> the privacy mismatch issue and now I can connect to a dynamic wep 
> network. But the connection is not very stable because I get tons of wep 
> decrypt errors in dmesg (while the connection is working but slow).
> The same network works fine with ipw3945. Also iwl3945 works fine with 
> static wep. I tryed the hwcrypt engine (hwcrypt=1) but it did not change 
> anything.
> While connectiong with wpa_supplicant I saw that mac80211 does not 
> support the IW_AUTH_DROP_UNENCRYPTED ioctl while ipw3945 (ieee80211 
> based) does.
> Could this be related? ie. mac80211 tryes to decrypt unencrypted frames 
> instead of dropping them?

Odd. I'll have to take a look. I recently noticed that mac80211 would
always *accept* unencrypted frames but it shouldn't try to decrypt them.

> Second problem is that ssid is hidden. I was able to connect to it using 
> iwl3945 (even with hw_scan) but only with ap_scan=1 (while ap_scan=2 
> should be used for hidden ssid and thats what nm uses). Non mac80211 
> based drivers do not work with ap_scan=1 but with ap_scan=2. So this 
> needs to be fixed somehow so that nm can support both wireless stacks.

Uh so say that again what works where and what doesn't?

johannes

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