Re: dynamic wep with mulitple keys

["Tomas Winkler" <tomasw@gmail.com>]

On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 3:10 PM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Tomas Winkler <tomasw@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 2:47 PM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach
<egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>
>>  >> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:10 PM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach
>>  <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >  >
>>  >>  >  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >  >  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach
>>  <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>>  >>  >  >  >  > >  I just tried compat-wireless-2008-05-05, which
does contain
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  >  03dcb07e74a62eec2badb9f6a091790c484f4a6c. No difference:
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  Thanks for trying this.
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  Can you try to load the module with swcrypto=1 and
try again ?
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  This disables the HW encryption acceleration. Trying
>>  this will allow
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  to make 100% sure that the bug is in iwlwifi. The bug
>>  is likely to be
>>  >>  >  >  >  >  there, but I think it is worth to make this 100% sure.
>>  >>  >  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  >  Well it happens for me with iwl3945 which uses swcrypto
>>  by default see:
>>  >>  >  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  >  http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120699235803881&w=2
>>  >>  >  >  >
>>  >>  >  >
>>  >>  >  >  Actually, I made quite a lot of changes in security in
iwl4965 that
>>  >>  >  >  are not in iwl3945 so I think it is worth trying with
iwl4965 in SW.
>>  >>  >  >  The security code is not the same between 3945 and 4965
>>  >>  >
>>  >>  >  OK, are you planning to port this changes/fixes to 3945 ?
>>  >>  >
>>  >>
>>  >>  Well... Low priority...
>>  >
>>  > This changes fix an important bug that otherwise make the driver
>>  > useless in some configurations.
>>  > So I think it should be backported to 3945 (even when development is
>>  > focused on newer hardware)
>>
>>  But 3945 uses SW encryption this fix is for HW crypto.
>
> I was talking about this:
> "Actually, I made quite a lot of changes in security in iwl4965 that
> are not in iwl3945 so I think it is worth trying with iwl4965 in SW.
> The security code is not the same between 3945 and 4965"
> which seemed to work for Volker using swcrypto

SW crypto is handled by mac80211 so I ponder why it works above 4965
and not over 3945 but it has nothing to do with this particular change


Thanks
Tomas