Return-path: Received: from mail-bw0-f227.google.com ([209.85.218.227]:43157 "EHLO mail-bw0-f227.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753399Ab0AYSwQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Jan 2010 13:52:16 -0500 Received: by bwz27 with SMTP id 27so2942868bwz.21 for ; Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B5DE859.6080409@lwfinger.net> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2010 12:52:09 -0600 From: Larry Finger MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bob Copeland CC: Don Darling , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Bug: 2.6.32 ath5k, associating with WEP128 AP is unreliable References: <4B5CD1FF.4090209@twilightblue.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/25/2010 11:39 AM, Bob Copeland wrote: > On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 6:04 PM, Don Darling wrote: >> I'm assuming this issue is related to the ath5k driver itself -- the network >> I'm using is only WEP128, and doesn't need wpa_supplicant. > > Huh, I didn't think any mac80211 driver supported WEP 128. Are you sure you > weren't using madwifi before? Or maybe WEP 104? For the record, WEP104 and WEP128 are the same thing. The smaller number makes it explicit that the 24-bit IV is transmitted in the open. The same thing applies to WEP40 and WEP64. Larry