On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/25/2010 11:39 AM, Bob Copeland wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Don Darling<darling.don@xxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> I'm assuming this issue is related to the ath5k driver itself -- the >>> network >>> I'm using is only WEP128, and doesn't need wpa_supplicant. >> >> Huh, I didn't think any mac80211 driver supported WEP 128. Are you sure >> you >> weren't using madwifi before? Or maybe WEP 104? > > For the record, WEP104 and WEP128 are the same thing. The smaller number > makes it explicit that the 24-bit IV is transmitted in the open. The same > thing applies to WEP40 and WEP64. > > Larry > > -- > 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 > Only one problem there is another, nonstandard WEP type where the actual key is 128-bit, and this is also sometimes referred to as WEP128 (with the same metric as WEP64, this one would be WEP152). Same goes for "WEP228/WEP256/WEP280". -- Vista: [V]iruses, [I]ntruders, [S]pyware, [T]rojans and [A]dware. :-) -- 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
