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Date:      Fri, 17 Jun 2005 15:23:05 -0400
From:      James Snow <snow+freebsd-current@teardrop.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org, James Snow <snow+freebsd-current@teardrop.org>
Subject:   Re: WPA Supplicant doesn't see my SSIDs?
Message-ID:  <20050617192305.GA9955@teardrop.org>
In-Reply-To: <42B21790.4060301@errno.com>
References:  <20050616191450.GA98695@teardrop.org> <42B1D9D9.7040604@errno.com> <20050616200450.GB98695@teardrop.org> <42B1DD17.3000601@errno.com> <20050616204044.GC98695@teardrop.org> <42B1E97B.5070408@errno.com> <20050616210447.GD98695@teardrop.org> <20050616220327.GE98695@teardrop.org> <42B21790.4060301@errno.com>

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On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 05:21:36PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote:
> 
> Sounds like you're using TKIP and the ap detects MIC errors in the 
> frames you are sending.  When this happens it is required to enable 
> countermeasures that include dropping traffic for a period of time. 

This is exactly what it turned out to be on the AP side. Seems like a
dubious feature to me.

> Check if your station negotiated WME; there have been problems with 
> using h/w TKIP together with WME that require doing the MIC calculations 
> in s/w.  The crypto support in current doesn't have all these changes.

Apparently I did have WME enabled. I could have sworn I tried it both
ways but, well, as you know I sometimes don't drink enough coffee. At
any rate, I'm now typing this over our WPA network. Yay!

Will send you some information about the hidden SSID off-list. Thanks
again for your help.


-Snow




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