[Fwd: airo with WPA support merge]

[matthieu castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>]

 > To: prjmgr@linuxdriverproject.org
matthieu castet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I added wpa support to airo driver some years ago, but I maintain the 
> support as a OutOfTreeDrivers [1]. I use it everyday in wpa mode.
> 
> It can't be merged in main because the wpa support is selected by a 
> module option. I did this because supporting wpa and other mode together 
> may need a large rewrite of the driver (when I did first 
> experimentation, I got firmware hang if I mix wpa command that use a new 
> firmware API and wep command that use old firmware API).
> 
> 
> But they have been some work to make it ok for main Linux tree [2], but 
> it failed because of some issues [3].
> 
> I don't have time nor interest to continue the work made in [2].
> May be somebody is interested.
> 
> Matthieu
> 
> [1]
> https://gna.org/projects/airo-wpa/ and 
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/airo-wpa/branches/kernel/
> 
> [2]
> http://svn.gna.org/viewcvs/airo-wpa/branches/kernel-merge/
> 
> [3]
> Dan Williams :
> One problem I have is that after setting the TKIP key, I always get a
> sequence of 3 bad MICs, and then the MAC sends a status of 0x8117 which
> causes the driver to send a disconnection event to userspace, which
> makes wpa_supplicant fail the connection.  If I comment out the 'goto
> badrx;' in the interrupt handler where the WPA mic is checked,
> everything works great and I can complete the 4-way handshake.  It needs
> more investigation, but do you have any thoughts on what might be going
> on here?
>