Ticket #561 (new request)
Opened 8 weeks ago
WEP support broken on Fonera 2.0n: 2.2.6.0-2.3.5.0
| Reported by: | zencoslav@… | Owned by: | john.crispin@… |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | First Release |
| Component: | fon-wifi | Keywords: | 2.0n, WEP, encryption |
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Description
Hello!
I tried to enable 64&128 WEP encryption with Fonera 2.0n (two units). I loaded firmwares 2.2.6.0, 2.3.0.0 and 2.3.5.0.
WPA encryption works normally, but I need WEP because of compatibility with older devices and there are some performance issues with WPA. This is for a multi AP network with roaming support.
Description of the bug: When setting a WEP encryption with key, my Windows notebook comes up with this error: "Windows is unable to connect to the selected network. The network may no longer be in range. Please refresh the list of available networks and try to connect again."
Instead, it should ask me for the WEP key! Tried and rebooted several times.
With other APs, WEP works normally. With 2.0n, it also works with WPA. I tried to set up the wireless.public.key=1, and .key1=ACTUAL_KEY (also with config.sh script from uci fon), but still doesn't work. Other wireless devices would detect WEP network, ask me for the key, but none would get accepted.
I could not access the actual WEP settings from the Ralink chip, as iwlist doesn't work fully.
Proposed solution: check what WEP settings do actually get sent to the Ralink wireless chip. It should be easy to key in a 64-bit WEP (also with leading zeroes) and get it to work withing a minute.
