iwn(4) and WEP

Sean Bruno sbruno at ignoranthack.me
Sat Mar 15 02:52:16 UTC 2014


It looks like the wpa_supplicant 2.0 import now checks the
cryptocapability mask when trying to validate WEP usage.

iwn(4) does not populate the mask with any values so wpa_supplicant sees
a value of 0.

I added the capabilites and can associate, but dhclient cannot get an IP
from the AP.  I assume then, that once again, I don't know what I'm
doing.

More or less, this is what I tried:

Index: if_iwn.c
===================================================================
--- if_iwn.c	(revision 263173)
+++ if_iwn.c	(working copy)
@@ -564,6 +564,8 @@
 		| IEEE80211_C_PMGT		/* Station-side power mgmt */
 		;
 
+        ic->ic_cryptocaps = IEEE80211_CRYPTO_WEP;
+
 	/* Read MAC address, channels, etc from EEPROM. */
 	if ((error = iwn_read_eeprom(sc, macaddr)) != 0) {
 		device_printf(dev, "could not read EEPROM, error %d\n",


sean

p.s. Allan Jude came up with a hack for wpa_supplicant that seems to
work, so I've bcc'd him here to get a patch out of him.
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