Re: [Madwifi-users] Unable to associate to Ap w/ Smc 2336A-Ag

[Sam L. <sa...@er...>]

On Friday 19 November 2004 09:23 am, ADT wrote:
> I have to agree with Sam.  Every other WiFi card I've ever used
> (Prisim, Cisco, etc) works correctly without having to use iwpriv.
> The fact that iwconfig shows "restricted" but the card is really
> running in open mode is a BUG.
>

Restricted does not imply shared key (at least in the current code); it means 
unencrypted packets should be dropped.  You are confusing authentication with 
the base handling of packets.  This is an example of the confusion.  The 
meaning of the underlying ioctl is not well-defined so far as I can tell--the 
only place it's really set out is in the iwconfig manual page and the 
description there is unclear.  Someone needs to survey all the drivers and 
figure out what the expected behaviour is.  ieee80211_wireless.c is intended 
to emulate what Linux users expect for the wireless extensions API.

 Sam