Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 18:38:45 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <Alex.Kovalenko@verizon.net> To: Ryan Sommers <ryans@gamersimpact.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WEP Encryption Changes Message-ID: <1107387525.979.7.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <41FEF40A.70006@gamersimpact.com> References: <63285.65.27.85.163.1107049410.squirrel@65.27.85.163> <41FC561C.3080505@errno.com> <41FEF40A.70006@gamersimpact.com>
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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. -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)
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