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Date:      Sun, 12 Oct 2003 20:47:15 -0700
From:      Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ath(4) driver problems with WEP...
Message-ID:  <200310122047.15228.sam@errno.com>
In-Reply-To: <20030917031202.GA35362@panzer.kdm.org>
References:  <20030917031202.GA35362@panzer.kdm.org>

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On Tuesday 16 September 2003 08:12 pm, Kenneth D. Merry wrote:
> I've got a Netgear WAG511 (Atheros 5212-based card) and a Netgear FWAG114
> wireless router.
>
> I've been trying to get the card and the router talking under FreeBSD.
> (Both 802.11a and 802.11g work fine under Windows on the same machine.)
>
> I'm using -current from September 15th.
>
> Anyway, whenever I try to get the card talking to the router, which is
> running WEP (128 bit keys) on both the a and b/g sides, I get:
>
> ath0: authentication failed (reason 13) for [ base station MAC address ]
> ath0: authentication failed (reason 13) for [ base station MAC address ]
> ath0: authentication failed (reason 13) for [ base station MAC address ]
> ath0: authentication failed (reason 13) for [ base station MAC address ]
> ath0: authentication failed (reason 13) for [ base station MAC address ]

I just committed a fix to the ath driver for the WEP problem; let me know if 
you have any more trouble.  I verified 40-, 104-, and 128-bit WEP keys work 
for me.  As a bonus I also sped up WEP traffic through the driver.

	Sam



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