Re: dynamic wep with mulitple keys

[drago01 <drago01@gmail.com>]

On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 3:10 PM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
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>  >  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 10:22 AM, drago01 <drago01@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Emmanuel Grumbach <egrumbach@gmail.com> wrote:
>  >  >  >  > >  I just tried compat-wireless-2008-05-05, which does contain
>  >  >  >  >  >  03dcb07e74a62eec2badb9f6a091790c484f4a6c. No difference:
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>  >  >  >  >  Thanks for trying this.
>  >  >  >  >  Can you try to load the module with swcrypto=1 and try again ?
>  >  >  >  >  This disables the HW encryption acceleration. Trying this will allow
>  >  >  >  >  to make 100% sure that the bug is in iwlwifi. The bug is likely to be
>  >  >  >  >  there, but I think it is worth to make this 100% sure.
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>  >  >  >  Well it happens for me with iwl3945 which uses swcrypto by default see:
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>  >  >  >  http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=120699235803881&w=2
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>  >  >  Actually, I made quite a lot of changes in security in iwl4965 that
>  >  >  are not in iwl3945 so I think it is worth trying with iwl4965 in SW.
>  >  >  The security code is not the same between 3945 and 4965
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>  >  OK, are you planning to port this changes/fixes to 3945 ?
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>  Well... Low priority...

This changes fix an important bug that otherwise make the driver
useless in some configurations.
So I think it should be backported to 3945 (even when development is
focused on newer hardware)