On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 20:22 +0800, Johannes Berg wrote: > This reworks the key operation in cfg80211, and now only > allows, from userspace, configuring keys (via nl80211) > after the connection has been established (in managed > mode), the IBSS been joined (in IBSS mode), at any time > (in AP[_VLAN] modes) or never for all the other modes. > > In order to do shared key authentication correctly, it > is now possible to give a WEP key to the AUTH command. > To configure static WEP keys, these are given to the > CONNECT or IBSS_JOIN command directly, for a userspace > SME it is assumed it will configure it properly after > the connection has been established. This breaks wireless-tools for WEP with fullmac cards because "iwconfig key" doesn't send the AUTH command. Is it expected? Thanks, -yi > Since mac80211 used to check the default key in IBSS > mode to see whether or not the network is protected, > it needs an update in that area, as well as an update > to make use of the WEP key passed to auth() for shared > key authentication. > > Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- 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
