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Date:      Mon, 20 Mar 2000 18:39:38 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>
Cc:        stefan@csudsu.com, newton@internode.com.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: WaveLAN/IEEE Turbo (Silver)
Message-ID:  <20000320183938.A27414@orion.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200003210232.SAA05069@windsor.research.att.com>; from fenner@research.att.com on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:32:49PM -0800
References:  <200003210232.SAA05069@windsor.research.att.com>

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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 06:32:49PM -0800, Bill Fenner wrote:
> 
> The FreeBSD driver doesn't currently support encryption, correct.
> The Linux driver does, so perhaps it would be fairly easy to port the
> functionality, and the Linux driver is dual-licensed under GPL and BSD
> licenses so there's no worry of GPL contamination.
> ftp://sourceforge.org/pcmcia/contrib/wavelan2_cs-6.00.tar.gz
> 
> I'm going to have to figure this out soon, since we're going to turn
> encryption on soon.  I'd be ecstatic if someone else figured it out
> first =)

You're in luck.  Bill Paul commited support at Linux World.  There
appear to be some weird things like a comment about the API using a
14byte field to pass 128bits of data, but it's supposed to work.

-- Brooks

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