From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:55794 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755678AbXHKPQG (ORCPT ); Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:16:06 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Larry Finger Subject: Re: How to use software encryption with WEP and mac80211 Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 17:15:23 +0200 Cc: wireless References: <46BD2C17.4000702@lwfinger.net> <200708111142.15991.mb@bu3sch.de> <46BDD038.4040207@lwfinger.net> In-Reply-To: <46BDD038.4040207@lwfinger.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <200708111715.23891.mb@bu3sch.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.