On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 11:44:00AM -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2017-05-24 at 17:34 +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 05:27:50PM +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am attempting to rewrite the ks7010 WEXT driver > > > (drivers/staging/ks7010) > > > to use the CFG80211 API. > > > > > > I am reading 802.11 Wireless Networks - Matthew S. Gast for > > > reference. > > > > > > I have some confusion regarding WEP/WPA/WPA2/RSN, ciphers, keys and > > > ie's? > > > > > > As I understand, first there was WEP. Next we got a marketing term > > > WPA > > > which referred to 802.11i (which specified the protocols TKIP and > > > CCMP, and also RSN). > > > > > > WEP vs WPA > > > ---------- > > > > > > To add to my confusion the ks7010 code seemingly mixes up the use > > > of > > > WEP keys and WPA keys, to set both the WEP and the WPA keys the > > > driver > > > uses the same MIB requests? Yet throughout the code WEP keys and > > > WPA > > > keys are stored in separate structures (and treated differently). > > > > Oh, I just got why there is only one MIB request type - there are > > only > > one set of keys used by the target > > > > DOT11_WEP_DEFAULT_KEY_VALUE1 = 0x13020101, > > DOT11_WEP_DEFAULT_KEY_VALUE2 = 0x13020102, > > DOT11_WEP_DEFAULT_KEY_VALUE3 = 0x13020103, > > DOT11_WEP_DEFAULT_KEY_VALUE4 = 0x13020104, > > > > removing 'WEP' from the defines removes the confusion here :) > > I could be entirely wrong, but it looks like the driver really just > defines 4 "keys" which can be used for anything. Thank you very much for taking the time to look at the driver, I really appreciate it. > For WEP, they are the 4 WEP key indexes. > > For RSN, they are 1 = PMK, 2 = GMK, 3 = GMK2, 4 seems unused. > > Because WEXT is pretty convoluted, I woudn't necessarily try to > translate what eg ks_wlan_set_encode_ext() is doing directly to > cfg80211, but to understand how the firmware interface works and then > just write the cfg80211 code to the firmware interface. That's a good idea. thanks, Tobin.
