Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:51429 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751834AbXJWOIG (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:08:06 -0400 Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945/mac80211 cannot connect to dynamic wep network From: Dan Williams To: Zhu Yi Cc: dragoran , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, ipw3945-devel In-Reply-To: <1193127280.3069.261.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> References: <1193127280.3069.261.camel@debian.sh.intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2007 10:07:33 -0400 Message-Id: <1193148453.8648.20.camel@localhost.localdomain> (sfid-20071023_150810_118446_E87EE8F5) Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 16:14 +0800, Zhu Yi wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:54 +0200, dragoran wrote: > > I really have bo idea what this means... with ipw3945 (ieee80211 > > based) the same network works just fine. > > This is related to mac80211, not the driver. That's why ipw3945 works. > Does this patch work for you? > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118715117523167&w=2 Was there ever a conclusion to this patch? ISTR it went through a couple comments and was more or less rejected as the wrong approach. Can anyone comment as to what the _right_ approach is? Not being able to connect to dynamic WEP networks is not acceptable, what needs to be done to make this work? Thanks, Dan