[Madwifi-devel] Re: wpa_supplicant, madwifi and WEP?
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From: Jouni M. <jkm...@cc...> - 2005-04-03 17:44:34
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On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:07:01AM -0400, Gonzalo Diethelm wrote: > 1. Does wpa_supplicant support configuring a connection with static WEP > passwords (what I would call the typical configuration you see on a > Windows machine using WiFi with some kind of protection)? Yes, this is supported. > 2. If yes, is this supported with an Atheros-based (madwifi) card? Yes, it is. However, it looks like configured Shared Key authentication was not implemented and your example was using this (auth_alg=SHARED). I had no problems with Open System authentication, though. I added some code for configuring authentication algorithm to driver_madwifi.c, but this did not seem to be enough. The driver seemed to be forgetting the configured value for some reason. It would be nice, if someone with better understanding of the madwifi driver would be interested in figuring this out.. As a workaround, it seemed to be possible to manually configure the driver into using Shared Key authentication with 'iwpriv ath0 authmode 2' before starting wpa_supplicant. For some reason, doing the exact same ioctl() from wpa_supplicant before association did not help, i.e., something else is apparently needed to trigger this change in madwifi authmode. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA |