ipw2200 + wpa_supplicant + wep AP

[Pedro Ramalhais]

Mario wrote:
> Hi all,
> I replaced waproamd with wpa_supplicant as wireless auto-scan agent to 
> join to known wep and wpa APs.
> 
> With my pcmcia prism2-based with hostap drivers my configuration of 
> wpa_supplicant works greatly (with wep and wpa APs).
> With my internal centrino wireless card (ipw2200 driver) it works well 
> with wpa-psk AP but I have problems with simple wep AP. :(
> 
> Here some informations:
> - Debian Sarge 3.1
> - wpa_supplicant 0.3.8 (with debian-specific patches REMOVED, a vanilla 
> version);
> - ipw2200 1.0.1 + firmware 2.2
> 
> my wpa_supplicant.conf:
> -----------------------------------------
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=0
> eapol_version=1
> #ap_scan=1
> 
> network={
>         ssid="gandalf"
>         key_mgmt=NONE
>         wep_key0="XXXXXXX"
>         wep_tx_keyidx=0
>         auth_alg=SHARED
>         priority=1000
> }

It's a known problem with the current driver. There's a work-around for 
wpa_supplicant which involves patching it with a patch that you can 
probably find in the hostap ML archives or in the debian package.

--
Pedro Ramalhais