On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 05:14:19PM +0900, Atsushi Onoe wrote:
> > Hrumpf! I spoke to quickly again. I had tested with a 1.5.x kernel but
> > looked at -current source. I'm sorry for wasting your resources here
> > somewhat. I can get my card to use the persistent key with -current
> > kernel, simply by configuring an arbitrary temporary key, like:
> > 
> > ifconfig an0 nwid "blah" nwkey " " up
> 
> Wow!  I didn't know such *feature*.  It also works fine for me.
> I guess the firmware automatically switch to persistent key if
> temporary key is invalid.
Apparently.

> > Still, maybe the above split in ifconfig parameters would still be
> > more elegant?
> 
> What should happen if user delete key and enable wep simultaneously?
> 	ifconfig an0 wep -nwkey temp -nwkey persist
What will  happen I think (at least with the an driver/card) is that it 
will just fail to connect to any network. Having no key should be
equivalent to having not the right one (for the networks around). But
I am not sure. The same way I am not entirely sure the nwkey " "
should be considered a temporary hack, or causes some trouble (but
works to certain degree) or sub-optimal behaviour. With it on a
-current machine, I get these errors from the driver:

an0: RID 0xff68 access failed
an0: RID 0xff50 access failed
an0: RID 0xff50 record length mismatch -- expected 138, got 8192
an0: RID 0xff50 record length mismatch -- expected 138, got 255
an0: RID 0xff68 record length mismatch -- expected 432, got 8192

on a regular basis. They might be caused (this is just an uninformed
guess) by the card trying the bogus temporary key now and then and
failing.

> I'd like to make setting key and enabling wep as an atomic action
> from the command usage point of view.
Fine with me.

> How about this?
> 	ifconfig <if> nwkey <key>	# enable WEP with temporary key <key>
> 	ifconfig <if> nwkey persist	# enable WEP with persistent key
> 	ifconfig <if> -nwkey		# disable WEP (also delete temp key)
> Programming persistent key can be a different interface (anconfig).
I wouldn't like that. I really like these things part of ifconfig and
believe that's where they belong in a way. Maybe we should just use a
different parameter for persistent and temporary keys, i.e. like

	ifconfig <if> nwkey <key>	# enable WEP with temporary key <key>
	ifconfig <if> -nwkey		# disable WEP (also delete temp key, but not persisten one if any)
	ifconfig <if> nwkey persist [key]	# enable WEP with persistent key, with optional argument for setting it

Feico.