Direction of wireless networking in Fedora ( was RE: Wireless update to ifup and network-functions )

Pekka Pietikainen pp at ee.oulu.fi
Thu Sep 16 14:44:51 UTC 2004


On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 10:18:11AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> (2) WEP/Authentication: Cisco drivers, for example, require a WEP key to
> be used when using Open System Authentication, which is just plain
> wrong.  You don't need to use encryption when using Open auth.
Gets even more messy when you start doing 802.1x/EAP/TKIP/WPA/RSN/whatnot, 
some cards hide the packets you should be processing from you completely,
so xsupplicant breaks. Then there's the problem of setting the right dynamic
WEP keys on the chip which also works in mysterious ways.

Fortunately the competition is not that much better in this area, things
work just about as randomly on XP as they do on Linux ;-)

-- 
Pekka Pietikainen





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