On Fri, Mar 7, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 21:37 +1100, hce wrote:
> > On 3/5/08, Dan Williams <dcbw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 11:26 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> > > > Jim,
> > > >
> > > > > I am running a wifi device on kernel 2.6.11 and wireless extension
> > > > > version 17 for an ARM processor, it works fine with an open AP and
> > > > > wpa_supplicant 0.5.8.
> > > >
> > > > That's ancient.
> > > >
> > > > > Now I would like to support WEP and WPA. I know
> > > > > the best is to upgrade to latest kernel, but I am not in the position
> > > > > to do it as various reasons.
> > > >
> > > > Upgrade anyway.
> > > >
> > > > > An alternative as people suggested is to
> > > > > do a wireless extension patch which supports WEP and WPA on kernel
> > > > > 2.6.11. Any advice if it is feasible and where can I find the wireless
> > > > > extension patch for WEP and WPA on kernel 2.6.11 please?
> > > >
> > > > Hahaha. We'll you'll have to *make* that patch and invest a
> > > > *significant* amount of time into that.
> > >
> > >
> > > Yeah; it's not just the defines and whatnot in wireless.h; you probably
> > > also want to update wireless-tools too, then you have to update your
> > > driver as well. It's not hugely complex, but it's going to be a lot of
> > > boring work :)
> > >
> > >
> > > Dan
> >
> > I've just upgrade wireless extension version 18 which supports WPA (Is
> > it for WEP as well?), with replaced two files of version 18 wireless.h
> > and wireless.c in the kernel 2.6.11. Please correct me if I missed
> > other source files in the kernel.
> >
> > The wireless-tools we are using come from different sources, the
> > iwconfig was from busybox 1.3 and wpa_supplicant 0.5.8 was compiled to
> > our firmware. The initial test for WEP set up was not good, but I was
> > told, the wireless extension vresion 18 only supports WPA not WEP,
> > please advice.
>
> Incorrect. WE-18 _added_ support for WPA ioctls but did not remove
> support for WEP. You'll just have to debug stuff and find out what's
> going wrong.
Thanks Dan.
There was an error of "ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT]: Input/output error". I
looked at wireless.h and wireless.c of WE18, that the
"SIOCSIWENCODEEXT" is defined and it also defines following in the
static const struct iw_ioctl_description standard_ioctl[]
[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT - SIOCIWFIRST] = {
.header_type = IW_HEADER_TYPE_POINT,
.token_size = 1,
.min_tokens = sizeof(struct iw_encode_ext),
.max_tokens = sizeof(struct iw_encode_ext) +
IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX,
},
What could I be missing for that ioctl[SIOCSIWENCODEEXT] in the kernel?
Thank you Dan.
Kind Regards,
Jim
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