Re: How to use software encryption with WEP and mac80211

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Saturday 11 August 2007 05:25:11 Larry Finger wrote:
> What do I need to do to get mac80211 to do software encryption for WEP? My port of the PHY code from 
> bcm43xx and the mac80211 front end works with WPA encryption. With WEP, it authenticates and 
> associates, but never gets an IP number from DHCP. That indicates to me that the encryption is not 
> set up correctly. I looked through the various definitions in include/net/mac80211.h, but nothing 
> seems to apply.

Which hw enc code do you use in that tree? The old softmac crap
or my new code from bcm43xx-mac80211?

Anyway, if you want to disable hw enc, always set the force sw enc bit
in the set_key function and return early:

	key->flags |= IEEE80211_KEY_FORCE_SW_ENCRYPT;
	return 0;

-- 
Greetings Michael.