Subject: Re: [ipw3945-devel] iwl3945/mac80211 cannot connect to dynamic wep
	network
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi>
Cc: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>, Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>,
	dragoran <drago01@gmail.com>, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	ipw3945-devel <ipw3945-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
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> While there is indeed a bug in wpa_supplicant 0.5.x, I think that
> another issue here is in mac80211 trying to do something that it was not
> supposed to do, i.e., to figure out whether privacy is enabled or not
> based on keymgmt value. This is decided in the supplicant and the value
> is configured with IW_AUTH_PRIVACY_INVOKED to the kernel. In other
> words, mac80211 should follow this parameter and not IW_AUTH_KEY_MGMT.

Hmm. Is there a good explanation of all these values? I still haven't
understood what all the IW_AUTH_* means. I'm fairly sure though that
this particular instance hasn't changed in terms of behaviour since the
original devicescape code (not that this means it's bug-free, of course)

> I merged the fix into 0.5.x branch, so it should be included in the next
> release. This was fixed as part of a more generic cleanup and it did not
> end up being flagged as a bug fix and consequently, not merged into
> 0.5.x branch.

Thanks.

johannes

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