On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:00 +0100, drago01 wrote: > Johannes Berg wrote: > > 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. > > > > > ok thx, let me now if you need more info / tests. > >> 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? > > > > > sorry for being confusing. > what works: > connect to a hidden ssid with ap_scan=1 in wpa_supplicant.conf > what does not work: > connect to a hidden ssid with ap_scan=2 in wpa_supplicant.conf > --- > for non mac80211 drivers its the opposite ie. ap_scan=2 can connect to > hidden ssid while ap_scan=1 works > (thats also whats documented in the wpa_supplicant docs and what nm uses). > > so NM can't support mac80211 and non mac80211 drivers at the same time > without ugly hacks due to this issue. Let me rant that ap_scan is the single thing that has given me the most headaches with NetworkManager. It's simply impossible use correctly on Linux. There's _got_ to be a better way to deal with hidden SSIDs. Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
