Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030706AbWJDCMo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:12:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030707AbWJDCMo (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:12:44 -0400 Received: from mail2.genealogia.fi ([194.100.116.229]:41856 "EHLO mail2.genealogia.fi") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030706AbWJDCMn (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Oct 2006 22:12:43 -0400 Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:10:20 -0700 From: Jouni Malinen To: Jean Tourrilhes Cc: Jeff Garzik , "John W. Linville" , Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Alessandro Suardi , Norbert Preining , hostap@shmoo.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net Subject: Re: wpa supplicant/ipw3945, ESSID last char missing Message-ID: <20061004021020.GB6110@jm.kir.nu> Mail-Followup-To: Jean Tourrilhes , Jeff Garzik , "John W. Linville" , Linus Torvalds , Lee Revell , Alessandro Suardi , Norbert Preining , hostap@shmoo.com, Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johannes@sipsolutions.net References: <20061003123835.GA23912@tuxdriver.com> <1159890876.20801.65.camel@mindpipe> <20061003180543.GD23912@tuxdriver.com> <4522A9BE.9000805@garzik.org> <20061003183849.GA17635@bougret.hpl.hp.com> <4522B311.7070905@garzik.org> <20061003214038.GE23912@tuxdriver.com> <4522DA9B.6050207@garzik.org> <20061003222707.GB1790@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061003222707.GB1790@bougret.hpl.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Spam-Score: -2.6 (--) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 877 Lines: 19 On Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 03:27:07PM -0700, Jean Tourrilhes wrote: > Let's not make a mountain of this molehill. If you want to use > old versions of Wireless Tools and wpa_supplicant with WE-21, what you > need is just to add a dummy character at the end of your ESSID. And > everything will be fine. Nope, everything won't be fine with WPA-PSK which is using SSID as part of the key derivation. In other words, you cannot add a dummy character in the end of the SSID in wpa_supplicant configuration for a WPA-PSK network and expect everything to work. -- Jouni Malinen PGP id EFC895FA - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/