WEP on wi(4) [was: Re: LOR wlan0 wi0]
John Nielsen
lists at jnielsen.net
Tue Sep 1 04:13:00 UTC 2009
On Sunday 09 August 2009 01:27:07 am Sam Leffler wrote:
> > Sam Leffler <sam at errno.com> wrote:
> I can confirm WEP is broken on wi in sta mode (and probably ap mode).
> I found at least two bugs but couldn't get it to work so am going to
> leave it as an errata for 8.0. But what's truly odd is that WPA works
> fine despite a bug that should've caused it to not work. I knew WPA
> worked which is probably why I ignored WEP (noone in their right mind
> uses WEP when WPA is available :-)).
So for us wrong-minded people with wi(4) hardware that lacks WPA support
is it better to stick with 7.x for now? Any patches available or a rough
ETA? Is there a specific set of 8-CURRENT commits before which WEP is
known (or strongly suspected) to work? Anything others can do to help
besides ask annoying questions? (Sadly I'm not quite enough of a kernel
hacker to adopt maintainership of wi.)
Thanks!
JN
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