On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 04:07:05PM +0100, Michael Buesch wrote: > Please _don't_ remove CCs.
Sorry, I was sending via the gmane web interface, I guess it doesn't honour CCs. This one's via muttng's NNTP support to gmane, so I _think_ it's going to the right places. > On Saturday 11 November 2006 07:32, Paul Hampson wrote: >> Michael Buesch <mb <at> bu3sch.de> writes: > >> On Thursday 09 November 2006 23:23, Paul Hampson wrote: > > >> I've been backporting the bcm43xx-d80211 driver to whatever the released > > >> 2.6 kernel was using the rt2x00 project's d80211 stack (equivalent to > > >> current wireless-dev but with a workaround for not having a ieee80211_dev > > >> pointer and still using the _tfm interface instead of the _cypher > > >> interface.) > > >> As of last night's wireless-dev tree bcm43xx, everything seems to be > > >> operating fine except incoming broadcast traffic is coming in 14 bytes > > >> too > > >> long and scrambled. I presume this means it's not decrypting properly... > >> It sounds like a bug in the hardware decryption setup. > >> Are you using TKIP or not? >> Yes, it's using TKIP. The router docs and the loading of the tkip module >> when I use the softmac driver agree on this. > TKIP is still software encryption. Did you try with WPA-AES, for example, > which is hardware encryption? The router here only supports TKIP that I can see. There's another network I'll be on on Monday night which I might be able to throw into WPA2 mode... In fact, I was there yesterday and couldn't even get a DHCP IP address, but didn't have the time to diagnose it. > The problem might be that the card tries to decrypt mcast > frames in the crypto hardware, although we did not set a key. > So it uses a random key to decrypt. That obviously results in crap. Eww, yuck. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, B.Sc, LPI, MCSE On-hiatus Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to repetitive music. -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989 License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ ----------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
