From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 20 5:59:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from quack.kfu.com (quack.kfu.com [205.178.90.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91CA237B417 for ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:59:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from morpheus.kfu.com (morpheus.kfu.com [205.178.90.238]) by quack.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAKDxjD69306 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:59:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Received: from quack.kfu.com (nospam@localhost [::1]) by morpheus.kfu.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fAKDxjH35967; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:59:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@quack.kfu.com) Message-ID: <3BFA61D1.6070605@quack.kfu.com> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:59:45 -0800 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.5) Gecko/20011112 X-Accept-Language: en, en-US, en-GB MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Barney Wolff , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: prism2 128 bit wep keys? References: <200111192152.fAJLqe927719@medusa.kfu.com> <20011119181030.A9115@pir.net> <3BF99B35.9020604@kfu.com> <20011119222156.A59029@tp.databus.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If I plug a Lucent Gold card into my laptop running FreeBSD with the access point configured with a 128 bit key, it works. If I plug the MA401 into my laptop running Windows 2000, that works. If I plug the MA401 into my laptop running FreeBSD, it doesn't work. I've opened a PR for this (kern/32124). Barney Wolff wrote: > Are you quite sure the Linksys access point supports 128-bit keys? > On mine, the box said yes but the documentation, what there was of > it, seemed to say no. I didn't look very hard but remember being > rather annoyed. > > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:52:21PM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote: > >>Peter Radcliffe wrote: >> >> >>>nsayer@quack.kfu.com probably said: >>> >>> >>>>I just obtained a Linksys 802.11b access point. I previously was >>>>using an Apple Airport. 64 bit (40 bit, really) WEP keys work, but >>>>128 bit (104 bit, really) keys don't with the wi driver using my >>>>Netgear MA401. >>>> >>>> >>>>I'm not quite sure whether to blame the access point or the FreeBSD >>>>driver. >>>> >>>>Has anyone seen 128 bit keys working on prism2 wi cards under FreeBSD? >>>> >>>> >>>Not personally, I use lucent or cisco client cards, but one thing to >>>note is that different company's text representations (passphrases) of >>>keys do not agree. Whenever I have key problems the first thing I >>>check is that the key is entered in hex at both ends. >>> >>> >>You're quite right. But in this case it is indeed hex both places (I get >>my WEP keys from hexdump < /dev/random). >> >> >> >>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >>with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message >> > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message