Subject: Re: airo WPA
From: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com>
To: Matteo Croce <rootkit85@yahoo.it>
Cc: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>,
	Matthieu Castet <castet.matthieu@free.fr>,
	Fabrice Bellet <fabrice@bellet.info>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>,
	PReDaCoN <alessandroferrari@gmail.com>,
	Benjamin Reed <breed@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Javier Achirica <achirica@users.sourceforge.net>,
	Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>,
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Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:13:08 -0500
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On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:59 +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> Il Wednesday 07 November 2007 15:41:00 hai scritto:
> > On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 15:15 +0100, Matteo Croce wrote:
> > > New patch against current git
> > 
> > NAK at the moment; we've got too many patches for this floating around.
> > I'm currently working out some issues with WPA with a pull from
> > Matthieu's svn repo plus a set from Fabrice.  There's an issue with that
> > set (that your patch also has) that causes WPA associations to fail
> > because frames are driver-MIC-ed at the wrong times.  The patches also
> > have some style issues that I'd like to clean up.
> > 
> > So here's what I'd like to do with the airo WPA patches.  They need to
> > go through _one_ place.  Either I'll volunteer the time to handle them
> > and people can feed them through me, or we need some other place where
> > people can coordinate the work.  I'm happy to push this stuff through
> > since it seems like most of the dual-mode issues have been solved.
> > 
> > The immediate bug is that the driver mis-MICs the first few EAPOL frames
> > that come back during the 4-way handshake, failing the WPA association
> > for PCMCIA cards at least.  I haven't tested with my mini-PCI part yet
> > and won't until this can be fixed.  Once that appears to work, I'd like
> > to run through a bunch of setups and make sure the driver behaves as
> > expected for both WPA-capable and non-WPA-capable firmware versions, and
> > with a number of different RADIUS setups and encryption modes including
> > Dynamic WEP.
> > 
> > Dan
> > 
> 
> So where to put the developing sources? Made the _one_ place
> and me (i hope also others) could help.

Well, ideally we push the patch upstream and then people can send
updates to this list...  I think it's really close and I feel like it
can be submitted for 2.6.25.

Dan