Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:00:36 -0800 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Tom Uffner <tom@uffner.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11 w/ WEP requires deftxkey explicitly set after 2007-08-24 Message-ID: <474CAFA4.6040403@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <474CAB2D.4040406@uffner.com> References: <474CAB2D.4040406@uffner.com>
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Tom Uffner wrote:
> Last night when i updated my laptop from June 26's CURRENT to CURRENT
> as of a few days ago my wireless connection stopped working for no
> apparent reason.
>
> What was wrong became painfully obvious once I tracked the problem
> back to this commit:
>
> sam 2007-08-24 15:44:27 UTC
>
> FreeBSD src repository
>
> Modified files:
> sys/net80211 ieee80211_output.c
> Log:
> drop frames marked for encryption when no key is available
>
> Reviewed by: avatar
> Approved by: re (kensmith)
> Obtained from: madwifi
>
> Revision Changes Path
> 1.51 +1 -0 src/sys/net80211/ieee80211_output.c
>
> Up until this change i didn't need to set deftxkey, it seems to have
> defaulted to wepkey 1 which i did have set. It is an obvious workaround
> now, but a note in UPDATING would have saved me about 9 hours of reading
> commitlogs, building kernels and rebooting (on an old slow laptop).
>
> If it doesn't violate the standard, could we make deftxkey default to
> the lowest indexed WEP key that has been set? if not, could we mention
> it in UPDATING and/or ifconfig(8) lest it bite someone else.
deftxkey has defaulted to an undefined state since 6.0. Perhaps you can
show the specific case that is a regression for you.
Sam
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