Subject: Re: wi(4) interoperability, 104bit WEP key patch
To: FUKAUMI Naoki <naoki@fukaumi.org>
From: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@beer.org>
List: current-users
Date: 01/03/2002 08:03:24
FUKAUMI Naoki <naoki@fukaumi.org>  wrote:
 > You have Linksys WPC11?

yes.

 > It has prism2 chips?

think so.

 > On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 06:02:15AM -0700, Herb Peyerl wrote:
 > > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 3 ]
 > > Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
 > 
 > How about IBSS Ad-hoc mode?
 > 
 > On Orinoco Gold:
 >   "Create IBSS" set On, and "Port type" set 1
 > On Linksys:
 >   "Port type" set 0

Can't set 'port type' to 0... 

 > Please test it.

I did test it.  It doesn't seem to want to work.  On the linksys:

NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ NetBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 10 ]
Current channel:                        [ 3 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:04:5a:0c:89:d4 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Microwave oven robustness:              [ 33 64549 0 ]
Roaming mode(1:firm,3:disable):         [ 1 ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time (msec):                  [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
Authentication type 
(1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ 1 ]
TX encryption key:                      [ ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]

on the orinoco:

NIC serial number:                      [ 01UT08414754 ]
Station name:                           [ NetBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 02:e8:48:f7:2f:d4 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 10 ]
Current channel:                        [ 10 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:02:2d:1d:4a:3e ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Microwave oven robustness:              [ 0 ]
Max sleep time (msec):                  [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ Off ]
TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]

 > 
 > (Windows driver's Peer-to-Peer mode may be IBSS Ad-hoc mode)
 > 
 > > WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
 > > Authentication type 
 > > (1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ 1 ]
 > > TX encryption key:                      [ ]
 > > Encryption keys:                        [ xxxxxxxxxx ][  ][  ][  ]
 > 
 > WEP is On, but TX encryption key seems to be not selected...?

Well, I can't disable it.  Even with 'wiconfig wi0 -e 0', it still stays
on.

porter# wiconfig wi0 -e 0
porter# wiconfig wi0
NIC serial number:                      [ 99SA01000000 ]
Station name:                           [ NetBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node ]
SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Current netname (SSID):                 [ NetBSD IBSS ]
Desired netname (SSID):                 [  ]
Current BSSID:                          [ 44:44:44:44:44:44 ]
Channel list:                           [ 2047 ]
IBSS channel:                           [ 3 ]
Current channel:                        [ 5 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
MAC address:                            [ 00:04:5a:0c:89:d4 ]
TX rate (selection):                    [ 11 ]
TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
Create IBSS:                            [ Off ]
Microwave oven robustness:              [ 33 64549 0 ]
Roaming mode(1:firm,3:disable):         [ 1 ]
Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
Max sleep time (msec):                  [ 100 ]
WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
Authentication type 
(1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ 1 ]
TX encryption key:                      [ ]
Encryption keys:                        [  ][  ][  ][  ]