WPA-PSK for Aironet

[Basavaraj Arani]

Hi Dan,

Earlier I also tried IW_ENCODE_ALG_TKIP. But it dint work. Then I triend the
ALG_WEP. But was no use.

Regards,
Basu

On 1/4/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 11:17 +0530, Basavaraj Arani wrote:
> > Hi Dan,
> >
> > I am using the Firmware 5.6.08. But whenever I set the WPA key, the
> > card somehow doesn't get associated with the Access Point.
> > I am using the DLink-DWL-7100AP access point.
>
> Well, note that the driver modifications Matthieu made aren't fully
> debugged and aren't integrated upstream into the kernel, so there are no
> guarantees that everything works in the driver yet.  I'm working on
> cleaning it up and integrating the WPA code into the existing Airo
> driver, but it's a slow process since we want the same driver to be used
> for all modes.
>
> > Here is the code for setting the WPA on/off
> > ........
> >     if(!strcasecmp(args[0], "on"))
> >     {
> >         //wrq.u.param.flags = IW_AUTH_WPA_ENABLED & IW_AUTH_INDEX;
> >         wrq.u.param.flags = IW_AUTH_DROP_UNENCRYPTED & IW_AUTH_INDEX;
> >         wrq.u.param.value = 1;
> >
> >         if(iw_set_ext(skfd, ifname, SIOCSIWAUTH, &wrq) < 0)
> >                 return(IWERR_SET_EXT);
> >
> >     }
> >     else if(!strcasecmp(args[0], "off"))
> >     {
> >         wrq.u.param.flags = IW_AUTH_WPA_ENABLED & IW_AUTH_INDEX;
> >         wrq.u.param.value = 0;
> >
> >         if(iw_set_ext(skfd, ifname, SIOCSIWAUTH, &wrq) < 0)
> >                 return(IWERR_SET_EXT);
> >     }
> > ........
> >
> > and for setting the WPA keys, I have the following code.
> >
> > static int
> > set_wpakey_info(int             skfd,
> >              char *             ifname,
> >              char *             args[],
> >              int                count)
> > {
> >     struct iwreq wrq;
> >     struct iw_encode_ext *iwee;
> >     unsigned char key[IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX];
> >     int keylen = strlen(args[0]);
> >
> >     memset(&wrq, 0x00, sizeof(wrq));
> >
> >     memcpy(key, args[0], keylen);
> >     iwee = (struct iw_encode_ext *)malloc(sizeof(struct iw_encode_ext)
> > + IW_ENCODING_TOKEN_MAX);
> >
> >     iwee->alg = IW_ENCODE_ALG_WEP;
>
> You appear to be telling the driver to use a WEP key, not a WPA key.
> You probably want IW_ENCODE_ALG_TKIP here.
>
> Dan
>
> >     iwee->key_len = keylen;
> >     iwee->ext_flags = 1;
> >     memcpy(iwee->key, key, keylen);
> >
> >     wrq.u.encoding.pointer = (caddr_t)iwee;
> >     wrq.u.encoding.flags =  1;
> >     wrq.u.encoding.length = sizeof(struct iw_encode_ext) + keylen;
> >     if(iw_set_ext(skfd, ifname,SIOCSIWENCODEEXT, &wrq) < 0)
> >     {
> >        return(IWERR_SET_EXT);
> >     }
> >     return(1);
> > }
> >
> > I tried to set a key of length 32.
> > The key I set at both the ends (AP/ client adapater) is
> > abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdef.
> >
> > But the card doesn't get associated with the AP.
> >
> > Please help me in resolving this problem.
> >
> > Many thanks in advance.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Basu
> >
> >
> > On 1/4/07, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> >         On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 09:20 +0700, kemas henry wrote:
> >         > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 18:13 +0100, castet.matthieu at free.fr
> >         wrote:
> >         > > Selon R Arani Basavaraj-a24052 <basavaraj at motorola.com>:
> >         > >
> >         > > >
> >         > > > Hi,
> >         > > Hi,
> >         > >
> >         > > >
> >         > > > Is the current Linux driver for aironet pc4500 driver
> >         supports WPA-PSK?
> >         > > > I downloaded the airo driver which claims to support
> >         WPA-PSK from
> >         > > > http://castet.matthieu.free.fr/airo, but it doesn't
> >         seems to be working well
> >         > > > for me.
> >         > > AFAIK, only 340 and 350 series with a recent firmware
> >         support wpa. The older
> >         > > cards don't.
> >         >
> >         > did you mean cisco 340 and 350 pcmcia ?
> >
> >         Correct, only the 340 and 350 versions, in both MiniPCI and
> >         PCMCIA.
> >         You'll need firmware version 5.30.17 or later to do WPA.
> >
> >         > what kind of WPA that this card support ?
> >
> >         TKIP encryption only, with either WPA or WPA2.  The hardware
> >         just cannot
> >         do AES/CCMP.
> >
> >         Dan
> >
> >
> >
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