On Thu, 4 Jul 2013 09:23:29 -0400, Dennis New wrote: > Is there a way to configure (i.e. disable) the "generic information > elements" that are listed, for example, by "iwlist genie" ? > > I have an open ad-hoc network, and whereas one of my wifi cards shows > "no generic IE (Operation not supported)", and works fine, my other > card shows: > > IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1 > Group Cipher : CCMP > Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP > Authentication Suites (1) : PSK > > which seems to be causing problems on some (probably buggy) machines > that incorrectly think it's using WPA2. It seems like only a few wireless drivers implement this genie thing, (just ipw2x00, orinoco and prism54). For the moment, I just hacked disabled the SIOCSIWGENIE handler from drivers/net/wireless/ipw2x00/ipw2200.c. Things work now. -- 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
