Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:52:26 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: rb@gid.co.uk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi hostap mode WEP oddity Message-ID: <20020811.135226.44234970.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020811210636.02068bf0@gid.co.uk> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20020724222414.01f9f8f0@gid.co.uk> <20020724.183650.38682224.imp@bsdimp.com> <4.3.2.7.2.20020811210636.02068bf0@gid.co.uk>
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Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> writes:
: I'm using a 3Com AirConnect (3CRWE777A) in hostap mode on a -STABLEish
: kernel, and I've observed an oddity which might explain some other reports.
: I'm setting 'wepmode on', but ifconfig subsequently reports 'wepmode MIXED'
: although wicontrol reports it as 'On'. I can't connect with a non-WEP
: client, so I believe the card really is in WEP-only mode and ifconfig is
: reporting it wrongly.
You maybe be correct about that. I've not played with wep much, but
have noticed when I was playing with ad-hoc demo mode that I could get
a lucent card to connect w/o wep, but maybe I'm confused and it is a
simple bug in wi that it reports mixed.
: All seems to work except that client connexions drop after an indeterminate
: period (perhaps related to signal quality) and won't reconnect unless I
: ifconfig down then up the hostap interface. I'm going to see whether
: upgrading to the latest firmware effects any improvement. [Test client is a
: 3CRSHPW on Win2k running latest firmware.]
That's very odd.
Warner
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