On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 18:00 +0200, Ortwin Glück wrote: > > Johannes Berg wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:50 +0200, Ortwin Glück wrote: > >> reset_auth is called before each authentication try. So it should not destroy > >> the auth_alg that was set before. > >> > >> NB: this may have side-effects with automatic algorithm selection if AP responds > >> with alg not supported. > > > > This seems entirely wrong. > > > > Is your AP not capable of/configured to do open auth and _also_ doesn't > > reject the attempt? That is, the AP is just completely broken? > > Well, I see that with other (binary) drivers it actively rejects such > authentication attempts. But with this driver it doesnt. The only difference > that I can see from the packet logs is that mac80211 sends no probes before the > authentication, and that the sequence number is being reset. When's the sequence number reset? Which sequence number? > So maybe that keeps > this Netgear AP (yes it's crap) from rejecting. Or then it's something in ath9k > that causes the AP not to receive the packets in the first place. That'd be weird. johannes
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