Opened 10 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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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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