From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Orinoco, mac80211 and wpa2
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:38:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070404153814.GC8229@devicescape.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1175700158.5322.9.camel@dv>
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:22:38AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> Porting Orinoco driver to mac80211 would be a fun project, and I don't
> think it's impossible. It should be possible to dumb down the card,
> turn off scanning and authentication and send raw packets.
>
> I'm not sure if the firmware support would be needed, but Lucent 9.xx
> firmware has WPA support. Since it's RAM loadable, the firmware loading
> will need to be added. Fortunately, the implementation already exists
> in the now defunct HermesAP project.
If Orinoco cards added WPA support in the same (or similar) way as
Intersil Prism2/2.5/3, firmware support is certainly needed. In case of
Intersil, it was needed for adding WPA/RSN IE into (Re)AssocReq and to
receive Beacon/ProbeResp frames (to get WPA/RSN IE from AP). In
addition, the firmware must allow host-based encryption/decryption to be
enabled.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 15:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-04 13:14 Orinoco, mac80211 and wpa2 Jan Dittmer
2007-04-04 14:42 ` Dan Williams
2007-04-04 15:22 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-04 15:38 ` Jouni Malinen [this message]
2007-04-04 16:25 ` Pavel Roskin
2007-04-04 21:34 ` Miles Lane
2007-04-06 10:03 ` Erik Mouw
2007-04-06 19:31 ` Pavel Roskin
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