Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2005 23:31:39 +0800 (CST) From: Tai-hwa Liang <avatar@mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WEP Encryption Changes Message-ID: <0502042321154.16397@www.mmlab.cse.yzu.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <1107387525.979.7.camel@RabbitsDen> References: <63285.65.27.85.163.1107049410.squirrel@65.27.85.163> <41FC561C.3080505@errno.com> <41FEF40A.70006@gamersimpact.com> <1107387525.979.7.camel@RabbitsDen>
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 21:14 -0600, Ryan Sommers wrote: >> I recently (Jan 17) updated my laptop to the latest current. The last >> update was in November. After the latest update my WEP wireless stopped >> working. After playing with it. It appears something is amiss in the Tx >> key for me. I'm able to see broadcast packets coming over the wap just >> fine. They don't appear to be corrupt. However, nothing from the laptop >> gets to the wap. I'm wondering if Sam's update of sys/net80211 back in >> December might be the culprit. >> >> One thing I did notice was the new deftxkey option in ifconfig. I >> attempted to set this to 1 (to use the first and only key), didn't help. >> >> What all would I need to roll back to reverse these changes? Just >> sys/net80211 or would I need to hit sys/dev/wi also? >> >> Are there any better tools besides another wireless card (only have one >> unfortunately) to debug the frames? tcpdump seems to only get me so far. >> >> For the record this is a Lucent embedded WaveLAN (Dell Trumobile 1150) >> firmware 8.10.1. >> > I remember having to add 'weptxkey 1' to the ifconfig line when these > changes went in. > > As far as tools -- I was using /usr/src/tools/tools/ath/80211debug but, > since I had Atheros card then, I could not vouch for its applicability > in your case. I can have my if_wi(Thinkpad R40 builtin Actiontec, firmware 1.1.1/1.7.2) associated with a WEP enabled BSS with following command(assume that key 3 is the default key configured on the AP): ifconfig wi0 ssid my_ssid wepmode on wepkey 3:12345 deftxkey 3 up It's a -CURRENT cvsup'ed on Jan-28-2005. Setting the default TX key with "deftxkey" did the trick for me. -- Cheers, Tai-hwa Liang
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