Re: FC3: WEP doesn't work with Cisco Aironet 350

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I've talked to Javier Achirica, one of the maintainers of the aironet drivers...

Apparently iwconfig and the driver no longer know how to talk to each other, esp regarding the encryption mode (needs to be restricted aka 'encrypt')

Interim solution:
echo "WEP: encrypt" > /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Config

after the WEP key and channel and everything else are set.
The channel isn't getting set automatically either anymore, but iwconfig seems to be able to set it manually.


I don't know if this needs to be fixed in the driver or in iwconfig or what.

I'll forward the message from Javier also.

Thanks,
Barry

At 02:28 PM 1/20/2005, you wrote:
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Hi Barry,

Barry Gould wrote:
| Hi,
| On my Dell Latitude D800, I had my PCMCIA Cisco Aironet 350 working fine
| in FC2, with 128bit WEP.

Likewise, I had it working fine on my ibm thinkpad R40, with the minipci
aironet 350, for both FC1 and FC2. The wireless environment details were
128bit WEP, shared key, don't broadcast ESSID.

Alas, after installing FC3, the airo driver no longer works in my
environment (at all - even w/ WEP, broadcast SESID). No errors; it just
won't associate with the access point. It does find other access points
in the neighborhood, but since they're WEPed, I can't get it to
associate with them either.

|
| However, after upgrading to FC3, WEP no longer works.
| (I can however connect to non-encrypted networks)

Hmm. That's more than I can do at the moment.

|
| The only errors I see are
| DHClient says:
| "unknown hardware address type 801"
|
| However, I also notice
| /proc/driver/aironet/eth1/Config
| shows
| WEP: shared
|
| even though iwconfig says it is 'restricted'
| and I've tried re-setting it to restricted with iwconfig
|
| Also, the Channel isn't getting set right from ifcfg-eth1, but I can
| manually change it with iwconfig
|
| modprobe.conf contains:
| alias eth1 airo_cs
|
| and both airo_cs and airo modules are loaded.
|
| I'm running the current kernel, but it hasn't worked with any of the FC3
| kernels.
|
| Googling reveals others are having the same problem. One such discussion
| is here:
| <http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&postid=1414559>
|
| One thread mentioned disabling IPV6 in modprobe.conf... I tried that,
| and even tried compiling a kernel w/o IP6, but that still didn't make a
| difference.
|
| My company has standardized on Cisco equipment, so it is difficult to
| use something else.
|
| Thanks,
| Barry Gould

Cisco released a new version of their driver/userland utilities this
past May (2004), which purports to work on their firmware thru and
including version 5.30.17. Check out cisco's web site for details. It
claims to work on some 2.4 kernels; I didn't bother trying it myself
under 2.6. Maybe it'll work for you.

My laptop dualboots FC3 and Windows XP; I downloaded the latest windows
bits which updated the firmware to 5.60.8. Worked just great. This
version of the firmware of course breaks the FC3 airo driver (you can't
set your ESSID anymore). One can still locate/display APs in the
neighborhood, FWIW.

I figured I'd try and fix the driver myself. I tried diff'ing Cisco's
version of the airo driver (airo.c) with the version that's included
with the 741 kernel. There are quite a few differences. Unfortunately,
both versions claim to be the same (swversion = 2.1), and ownership of
this driver in linux seems up in the air at the moment. Checking
sourceforge shows that the latest version was released april of 2001,
which is much different than either the FC3 or the Cisco version.

Without clarification as to the owner and details from cisco regarding
the interfaces to the 5.60.8 firmware code, I can't see the situation
getting better.

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