Opened 11 years ago
Last modified 9 years ago
#16 new enhancement
Add new settings for AES/TKIP/AES+TKIP
Reported by: | andib | Owned by: | |
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Priority: | minor | Milestone: | |
Component: | engine | Version: | |
Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
This is from irc.netlabs copied here as a reminder. I can not verify as I do not have proper hardware but it seems xwlan/wlanstat misses newer security options.
valeriusL Andi_aw I have both WRND32$ and WRND322$ Genmac instances. Wpa_supplicant tries both and then closes them, and writes an error, that it can't find Genmac 1.08 or better [10:08] valeriusL Andi_aw I tried xwlan on this machine (there was OS/2 installed on it, but now it deleted. Now I boot OS/2 from flash drive. No xwlan here. But I can try it. When OS/2 was installed onthis machine, XWLan displayed wrnd322$ in Properties dialog, if I correctly remember -- but wifi didn't work -- and I did not figured out why) [10:09] Andi_aw valeriusL: so this is a limitation of xwlan, right? As far as I understand your comment wpa_supplicant supports AES+TKIP but you can not set it in xwlan, right? [10:09] valeriusL Andi_aw maybe -- I'm not sure... [10:10] Andi_aw if yes, maybe you want to fill a ticket at with as much info as possible (never tested this before as my Wi-Fi card do even not support WPA2 [10:10] valeriusL ah, with aes+tkip -- seems that's xwlan limitation, right [10:10] Andi_aw which card do you use? [10:10] Andi_aw 'even does not' [10:11] valeriusL Andi_aw ticket -- on Netlabs' Trac or on Paul's bugtracker, [10:11] valeriusL ? [10:13] valeriusL This is hapening with Broadcom 4311 wlan card -- on one laptop, and also I have Atheros 5416 -- for both, I patched Genmac binary (wrote PCI vendor ID and product ID) [10:13] Andi_aw if it's xwlan fault then http://trac.netlabs.org/xwlan, but for wpa_supplicant problems think Pauls mantis is the best place [10:14] valeriusL yes, ok.. [10:14] Andi_aw so this can be a genmac problem too, right? [10:14] Andi_aw if genmac you're out of luck [10:16] valeriusL No, It loads without errors -- At least, both copies of Genmac are loaded (there are two copies, which can be checked with Watchcat. Also, 'drvrlist.exe' utility shows both WRND32$ and WRND322$ drivers) [10:17] valeriusL wpa_supplicant opens both driver copies, then closes them. So, it seems to open them successfully [10:17] -->| _diver (~chatzilla@62-2-198-162.static.cablecom.ch) hat #netlabs betreten [10:19] Andi_aw no clue if genmac has to handle AES+TKIP different [10:19] valeriusL Then it tries to open all names up to WRND328$, no closes -- so, it looks like opens are not successful [10:19] Andi_aw does your setup work without aes? [10:19] _diver hi all [10:20] valeriusL Andi_aw I suspect that xwlan does not support all wpa_supplicant features [10:21] Andi_aw fears not only xwlan but genmac need to support it too, so if not supported by genmac there's nothing xwlan can do about [10:21] Andi_aw I fear [10:22] valeriusL Andi_aw yes, here, my home network is without aes, but on my old work network, aes was enabled, and I couldn't connect to it with xwlan -- it disconnected from the network and wpa_supplicant was restarted each time [10:23] valeriusL I don't know if aes is mandatory, if enabled? [10:23] valeriusL so, if it is enabled, would clients connect, if they don't support aes? [10:24] valeriusL GG_W bonjour [10:32] valeriusL Andi_aw and I forgot to say -- Genmac loads without an error (both instances, Marvell Yukon Fast ethernet and Broadcom 4311 wi-fi card -- both are detected the cards and displayed a green message on the screen) [10:32] valeriusL So, it seems that on Genmac side all is ok [10:34] valeriusL I tried five different versions of wpa_supplicant.exe, from the very old, about 100 KB in size, to newer 1.1 and 2.0 versions -- the same result [10:34] Andi_aw genmac loads which does not mean it supports all features of the card [10:34] Andi_aw do you know any genmac supported card which works with AES? [10:37] valeriusL Andi_aw also, I tried this card (a mini-PCI card) on another laptop -- it worked fine with the same patched Genmac. I changed it to Intel 4965 a/g/n because Broadcom has poor signal sensitivity [10:38] valeriusL Andi_aw I tried Intel 4965 a/g/n with a network with aes enabled -- it worked [10:39] valeriusL Andi_aw but my current network I am experimanting with is without aes enabled [10:40] valeriusL so, aes+xwlan and wpa_supplicant not seeing two Genmac instances are two different problems [10:41] valeriusL Andi_aw I wanted to ask if somebody knows how to tell wpa_supplicant, which driver instance to use as wi-fi device (or, maybe it only does it automatically?) [10:45] valeriusL I think, the 2nd problem is hapenning when there are two Genmac instances -- maybe, the OS/2 port of wpa_supplicant supports only one Genmac instance (being WRND32$, but not WRND322$, even if it checks for both) -- just a hypothesis [10:48] valeriusL Andi_aw "also, I tried this card (a mini-PCI card) on another laptop..." -- and this laptop had only one Genmac instance (the wired LAN device was serviced by other NIC driver) [10:48] valeriusL so, I think that this problem occurs with two Genmac devices [11:01] valeriusL Andi_aw BTW, no selection "AES/TKIP/AES+TKIP" in xwlan, so, maybe, it just not understand networks with AES. But wpa_supplicant config file allows to specify ciphers explicitly. It is for sure supports AES. And Genmac supports it too, because I connected successfully to a network with AES (but with wpa_supplicant only, not xwlan)
[11:39] Andi_aw if I read all this right xwlan should be expanded to - [11:39] Andi_aw - let the user select "AES/TKIP/AES+TKIP" options [11:39] Andi_aw - and handle over this new settings to wpa_supplicant [11:39] Andi_aw after that, it should work as long as there is only one NIC driven by genmac
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