Re: WEP Encryption Changes

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.

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Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)