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On Wednesday 14 January 2009 18:43:27 Larry Finger wrote:
> Lorenzo Nava wrote:
> 
> > Today we have also tested a new firmware version that works with
> > WPA2-personal (both TKIP and CCMP) and WPA2-enterprise (EAP-TTLS)
> > (tested on 4306 and 4318 PCI device). If anybody was interested please
> > try new firmware with encryption and let us know if it works correctly,
> > thanks!
> 
> On my BCM4318 (Linksys WPC54G, Ver 3) in a Cardbus format in a
> WPA2-personal encrypted network with AES algorithm, it nearly worked.
> With your firmware, it can scan and authenticate. It even gets an
> DHCP-supplied IP address; however, I get no data through the link. In
> addition, I see lots of PHY TRANSMISSION ERRORS. When I disable
> hardware encryption (nohwcrypt=1), then it works.

Support for hardware crypto would require to reverse engineer the PCM firmware, first.
So we can't support hw-crypto, except on new devices that don't have a PCM anymore.
But these are not rev5 cores :)

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