Re: How to use software encryption with WEP and mac80211

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Saturday 11 August 2007 17:05:28 Larry Finger wrote:
> 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.

bcm43xx-mac80211 hwenc code does not work with v3 firmware.
There is no working hwenc code for v3 firmware.

The above code should work to enable swenc, unless there's a bug in mac80211.


-- 
Greetings Michael.