WEP on wi(4) [was: Re: LOR wlan0 wi0]

[Sam Leffler]

John Nielsen wrote:
> 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.)

Attached is what I came up with when the problem was identified.  As you 
can see it's incomplete.  I have no time to work on it more so someone 
else will need to follow through.

Given the cost of a replacement wireless card is <US$20 I cannot imagine 
why anyone would not just replace it.

	Sam
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