Sorry, I just looked at the fedora kernel, and it has a
patch to use software WEP. So I suppose I was using
that all along :(
I am attaching the patch.
Sorry about the confusion.
Best,
Alex
--- Alex Eskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks!
>
> I suppose the problem is some missed re-initialization after resume.
> At the moment, the following is a workaround:
>
> rmmod ath5k
> killall wpa_supplicant
> modprobe ath5k
>
> After that I see a new phy in debufs, and the network works fine.
>
>
> --- "Luis R. Rodriguez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 14, 2008 9:17 AM, Alex Eskin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a Thinkpad T41 laptop running Fedora 8 with the latest
> > > updates. The ath5k driver works great, until I try suspend-to-ram.
> > > After the resume, the driver gets into a strange state where
> > > everything seems to work except that connecting to my WEP
> > > encrypted AP gives a steady stream of
> > >
> > > WEP decrypt failed (ICV)
> > >
> > > messages and no packets get through. However, if encryption is
> > > turned off everything works great even across a suspend/resume.
> > >
> > > In an attempt to track this down, I turned on ath5k and mac80211
> > > debugging, but so far I could not figure out what is wrong. The
> > > value of the WEP key (as viewed from debugfs) is correct even
> > > in the strange state.
> > >
> > > Any hints on how to debug this? Everything is 100% reproducible
> > > so in theory it should be easy to track down. It is clear that I do
> > > not have general RX path corruption after a resume (since unencrypted
> > > works). Any ideas?
> >
> > Although some hardware code is there to try WEP it doesn't work yet.
> > I'll work on a patch to enable this as option and if not enabled use
> > software encryption instead, while we correct hw encryption.
> >
> > Luis
> >
>
>
>
>
>
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--- linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c.orig 2007-12-01 13:00:52.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.23.noarch/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c 2007-12-01 13:01:04.000000000 -0500
@@ -2830,7 +2830,6 @@ ath5k_set_key(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, e
switch(key->alg) {
case ALG_WEP:
- break;
case ALG_TKIP:
case ALG_CCMP:
return -EOPNOTSUPP;
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