Re: How to use software encryption with WEP and mac80211

[Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>]

Michael Buesch wrote:
> 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?

I had stripped out all the key stuff, but before that it was 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;

This doesn't seem to work. I had tried it before. I guess I put your code back in again.

Thanks,

Larry