Re: Prism2 Host AP - new release 2002-04-10


From: Vladimir Ivaschenko (hazard_at_hazard.maks.net)
Date: 2002-04-11 10:32:52 UTC


Did you try standard iwconfig commands for enabling WEP?

Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 08:32:20PM -0400 David Levitan wrote about Re: Prism2 Host AP - new release 2002-04-10

> quick question: How do I enable a 40 bit key and how do I enable a
> 104bit key? I couldn't find anything in any documentation.
> Thanks,
> David Levitan
>
> Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > A new version of Prism2 Host AP driver was just released and it is now
> > available from http://people.ssh.com/jkm/Prism2/
> >
> >
> > 2002-04-10
> >
> > * fixed compilation with older Linux wireless extension versions
> > (at least version 9 is now required for most wireless extensions)
> > * kernel driver AP functionality code cleanup
> > * try to send broadcast deauthentication frames when shutting down
> > * use smaller default inactivity timeout with stations (5 min)
> > * send disassociation when 3/4 of inactivity timeout has passed and
> > deauthentication when full timeout has passed
> > * added support for WEP in Host AP mode
> > - card firmware is used to decrypt frames (it seems to work fine)
> > - encryption is performed in host driver since firmware does not
> > seem to want to encrypt frames correctly when in Host AP mode
> > - use 'restricted' as default WEP mode instead of 'open'
> > - WEP keys are saved in driver data, so SIOCGIWENCODE is now
> > returning real values and not the bogus values firmware returned
> > - 40-bit and 104-bit WEP seems to now be working properly in Host AP
> > mode (both with stations and with WDS links); (note that if
> > 104-bit WEP is used, station firmware on AP must support 104-bit
> > WEP in order to decrypt frames)
> > * fixed a bug in fake-WDS frame generation
> > - if payload len was odd, the addr4 was broken in RX frames
> > * drop RX packets that have ToDS flag but wrong BSSID and RX packets
> > that have FromDS flag (these frames are usually broadcast/multicast
> > frames in other BSSes)
> >
> >
>
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Best Regards
Vladimir Ivaschenko
http://www.hazard.maks.net/~hazard


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