ath(4) driver problems with WEP...

[Sam Leffler]

> Hmm.  One other thing I'm seeing is that when I configure a 128 bit key
> with ifconfig or wicontrol (wicontrol shows all 28 characters -- 0x plus
> 26 hex characters), ifconfig still thinks it is a 104 bit key.  This is
> because ireq.i_len is 13.
> 

You must not have the up to date ifconfig.  This was the behaviour from
before.  I believe the mechanism that wicontrol uses to fetch keys does not
handle >104-bit keys so you see the zero-padded key string.

>> > In a separate issue, the ath(4) driver can't see the 802.11a side of
>> > the wireless router at all when it is running in 108Mbps "turbo" mode.
>> > If I drop it down to 54Mbps, it sees it.  (Works fine in Windows.)
>> > 
>> > Is the ath(4) driver supposed to support the 108Mbps turbo mode?
>> 
>> I was able to associate with an Atheros AP with turbo mode enabled but
>> didn't get any higher throughput.  I'm investigating this.
>> 
>> FWIW I enabled turbo mode with:
>> 
>> ifconfig ath0 mediaopt turbo
> 
> I had to also set the mode to 11a before it wanted to accept the turbo
> option.  Otherwise I got:
> 
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (mediaopt): Device not configured
> 

Ah, yes.  Turbo mode is orthogonal to 11a/b/g.  You can use it with 11g too
so you need to specifiy 11a or 11g.  I was already locked in 11a mode.
(But note that 11g+turbo is not yet supported by the driver.)

> Then I typed:
> 
># ifconfig ath0 mode 11a mediaopt turbo
> 	atalk 0.0 range 0-0 phase 2
> 
> Does it think I'm doing appletalk or something?

Hmm, didn't see this, will have to check.

> 
> It seems to see the base station in turbo mode now, but I'm still getting
> the "authentication failed (reason 13)" errors.

Are you using WEP?  As I explained WEP doesn't work right now.

	Sam