Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:14:50 -0800 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and not WEP or this is a bug in the driver? Message-ID: <47C60B0A.3060205@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <47C605D8.1030106@errno.com> References: <1204146470.47c5d1267ceee@webmail.rawbw.com> <47C5D8F6.20608@errno.com> <1204149622.47c5dd76995ba@webmail.rawbw.com> <47C5F356.3000101@FreeBSD.org> <47C5F744.8020608@rawbw.com> <47C605D8.1030106@errno.com>
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Sam Leffler wrote: > If you cannot use a feature you'll get an error when you try to use > it. There simply are not enough capability bits around to waste on > features that are always true. If I reorg this stuff (and I intend to > to split crypto out into a separate features word because we are out > of bits) then I can look into expanding the status. > Exactly, I got errors while trying to use WEP with FreeBSD-based wireless access point. And I looked in four eyes at all options and capabilities. And I first thought that WEP support is a problem. Basically AP with WEP encryption doesn't work with this card. Now I wonder if this software-based WEP support can be responsible for this failure. > To be honest you're the first person that's even noticed you can list > capabilities in the 3+ years that's been in place (or at least made > public mention). Hardly seems like something that's constantly > confused people. > Ok I will correct myself: this is very confusing to people who look and notice. Though there are not too many obviously. But caps are mentioned in the handbook. And it particularly says there: ifconfig /ath0/ list caps <skip> This output displays the card capabilities <skip> Various supported ciphers are also mentioned: WEP, TKIP, WPA2, etc., these informations are important to know what security protocols could be set on the Access Point. So from this one can conclude that WEP isn't supported. I guess it's good to mention here that WEP is always supported no matter what WEP flag says. Yuri
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