Re: [PATCH 2/2] Don't destroy authentication algorithm before authenticating.

["Ortwin Glück" <odi@odi.ch>]

Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 17:50 +0200, Ortwin Gl=C3=BCck wrote:
>> reset_auth is called before each authentication try. So it should no=
t destroy
>> the auth_alg that was set before.
>>
>> NB: this may have side-effects with automatic algorithm selection if=
 AP responds=20
>> with alg not supported.
>=20
> This seems entirely wrong.
>=20
> Is your AP not capable of/configured to do open auth and _also_ doesn=
't
> reject the attempt? That is, the AP is just completely broken?

Well, I see that with other (binary) drivers it actively rejects such=20
authentication attempts. But with this driver it doesnt. The only diffe=
rence=20
that I can see from the packet logs is that mac80211 sends no probes be=
fore the=20
authentication, and that the sequence number is being reset. So maybe t=
hat keeps=20
this Netgear AP (yes it's crap) from rejecting. Or then it's something =
in ath9k=20
that causes the AP not to receive the packets in the first place.

Ortwin

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