[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#304087: acknowledged by developer (Not really a bug in wpasupplicant)

[Reinhard Tartler]

reopen 304087
retitle 304087 wep on ipw2100 broken
quit

On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 05:17:02PM +0200, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 31.03.06 22:48:07, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> > I've been asking people on irc and watched upstream mailing list for a
> > while for people using ipw2100 with wpasupplicant. Also when looking at
> > the latest post of the submitter, I think this is rather a problem with
> > the particular ipw2100 driver version the submitter is using.
> 
> Yes, that might be the case.

I just noticed that my girlfriend's laptop is actually a ipw2100 (I
thought it was ipw2200), and I tried to use wpasupplicant with her plain
WEP secured network. Now I could reproduce the problem: wpasupplicant
does associate successfully, but dhclient does not succeed in requesting
a lease. 

However, when I issue the command 'iwpriv eth1 reset', sometimes
dhclient does succeed after that. I'm pretty confused about this,
because this doesn't seem to me quite deterministic.

> > If you reopen this bug, please provide theses version numbers
> > (and please retry with wpasupplicant_0.4.8, of course).
> 
> I'm not going to reopen this bug, unless I need WPA. 

WPA does work with this laptop. The problem seems to be WEP on ipw2100.
For this reason, I retitled this bug accordingly.

Gruesse,
	Reinhard