From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Aug 11 14: 5:30 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C09137B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:05:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AE3E43E65 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 14:05:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.12.5/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g7BL5P9R005211; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 15:05:26 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from imp@bsdimp.com) Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:52:26 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <20020811.135226.44234970.imp@bsdimp.com> To: rb@gid.co.uk Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi hostap mode WEP oddity From: "M. Warner Losh" 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> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message: <4.3.2.7.2.20020811210636.02068bf0@gid.co.uk> Bob Bishop 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message