Re: Encryption mode:restricted ?

Klaus Franken <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.at76c503a.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Am Montag, 12. Januar 2004 21:32 schrieb Joerg Albert:
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Klaus Franken wrote:
> > I'm trying to configure WEP. With my other WLAN card (ACX100) everything
> > is fine but with my Fiberline FL-WL240U it seems to be buggy.
> >
> > WEP off: OK
> > WEP 128 bit, Open-Mode: OK
> > WEP 128 bit, restriced mode (shared key): No connect
> > WEP 128 bit, restriced mode but Acces Point in "open mode": OK
> >
> > Atmel at79c505 (RFMD 2958), Driver version 0.12beta5, Fiberline
> > FL-WL240U, usb-uhci.o, Access Point: D-Link DWL900AP+.
>
> restricted mode with the at76c503 means "don't accept unencrypted data
> packets" only, while shared key authentication is configured by
> 	iwpriv wlanX auth_mode 1

Upps, it is documented in README, sorry.
It works fine!

>
> That's a bit historic, the meaning of "restricted" with iwconfig wasn't
> clear to me a year ago and so "shared key" auth got an own command.
>
> I'll change it unless someone objects with good arguments

Yes, I think it should be the same behavour like other drivers (but I know 
only acx100_pci.o).
Does it make any sense to set "restricted" but not "auth_mode 1" ? If not, it 
is very confusing.
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        Klaus Franken, [email protected]
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