From: Pat Erley <pat-lkml@erley.org>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Erich Titl <erich.titl@think.ch>,
linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: b43 driver and WEP
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 17:49:27 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <54AB2307.7080409@erley.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54AAFFB1.8030109@lwfinger.net>
On 01/05/2015 03:18 PM, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 01/05/2015 03:07 AM, Erich Titl wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I am working on a WLAN client on an embedded system and I am facing a
>> problem using WEP. I am using the b43 driver with a BCM43222 mini-pci
>> card and kernel 3.10.55.
>>
>> The card works fine with WPA and without encryption. Using WEP results
>> in a weird situation where dhcp requests can be sent across the wireless
>> link, but a dhcp reply is never received.
>>
>> The only error I could come up with is
>>
>> AP# ip link set wlan0 up
>> AP# iw event -f &
>> AP# iw wlan0 connect scoobly keys 0:abcdefghijklm
<<Snip>>
>>
>> [ 417.886167] b43 ssb0:0 wlan0: failed to set key 0
Does the key have to be hexadecimal for iw, and is yours? A lot of WEP
APs will generate a hex key from a passphrase, but (from what I
remember), linux requires the actual hex key. This is just from hazy
memory as the last time I used WEP without a gui controller (or even
with) was years ago.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-01-05 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-01-05 9:07 b43 driver and WEP Erich Titl
2015-01-05 21:18 ` Larry Finger
2015-01-05 23:49 ` Pat Erley [this message]
2015-01-05 23:53 ` b43 driver and WEP (solved) Erich Titl
2015-01-06 0:52 ` Larry Finger
2015-01-06 7:02 ` Erich Titl
2015-01-06 8:29 ` Johannes Berg
2015-01-06 10:38 ` Erich Titl
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