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Re: Bug: 2.6.32 ath5k, associating with WEP128 AP is unreliable

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2010/1/25 Gábor Stefanik <netrolller.3d@xxxxxxxxx>:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 7:52 PM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> 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".

Yea, I think ath hw supports that too:

#define AR5K_KEYTABLE_TYPE_40		0x00000000
#define AR5K_KEYTABLE_TYPE_104		0x00000001
#define AR5K_KEYTABLE_TYPE_128		0x00000003

at least that's what I assumed it meant.  But there's no way to set it
from mac80211 (nor should there be).

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