Re: wi(4) fixes

[Pedro la Peu <pedro@am-gen.org>]

On Thursday 04 March 2004 17:16, Todd C. Miller wrote:

> I would suggest you do as much with ifconfig as possible and
> move the wicontrol line to be first.  E.g.
>
> !wicontrol \$if -e1 -f7
> inet 192.168.100.101 255.255.255.0 NONE nwid home.net nwkey 0x... mediaopt
> hostap

I held off responding thus far as I won't have access to my test environment 
to check my facts until the weekend. But, the short story is:

I had similar problems after updating a Linksys WMP11 to station firmware 
1.4.9, I could no longer decrypt data frames in frmon (WI_DEBUG_MONITOR). 

Non encrypted and mgmt/ctrl frames were fine. I figured a firmware bug was the 
culprit when I found software WEP was also broken (for me) in hostap mode 
with this firmware. I assumed hostap had the same decrypt problem.

I reverted the card back to an older(?) station firmware and the problem went 
away. I have tried a fair few firmware versions and this seems specific to 
1.4.9. Or maybe just the 1.4.9 image I'm using...

-p