From: "Jouni Malinen" <jkm@devicescape.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 08:38:14 -0700
To: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Jan Dittmer <jdi@l4x.org>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Orinoco, mac80211 and wpa2
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:22:38AM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> Porting Orinoco driver to mac80211 would be a fun project, and I don't
> think it's impossible.  It should be possible to dumb down the card,
> turn off scanning and authentication and send raw packets.
> 
> I'm not sure if the firmware support would be needed, but Lucent 9.xx
> firmware has WPA support.  Since it's RAM loadable, the firmware loading
> will need to be added.  Fortunately, the implementation already exists
> in the now defunct HermesAP project.

If Orinoco cards added WPA support in the same (or similar) way as
Intersil Prism2/2.5/3, firmware support is certainly needed. In case of
Intersil, it was needed for adding WPA/RSN IE into (Re)AssocReq and to
receive Beacon/ProbeResp frames (to get WPA/RSN IE from AP). In
addition, the firmware must allow host-based encryption/decryption to be
enabled.

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Jouni Malinen                                            PGP id EFC895FA