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Jouni Malinen | 1 Oct 2006 01:51
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Re: what happened to the anonymous cvs repository?

On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:21:49PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

> The CVS server was up yesterday.  Hopefully it will be fixed soon.

Yesterday? Well, maybe in some time zones. The server I used for
hostap.epitest.fi died on Thursday and I had to move the pages to
another server. Both the CVS pserver and Bugzilla are down at the
moment because of this.

However, taken into account how much extra effort is needed for setting
up CVS pserver in a secure way, I don't think I will be doing it again.
Especially so, since I'm likely to stop using CVS for new development in
the near future.

If someone knows of a server that provides pserver output and allows one
to use rsync to upload the CVS repository, I could consider using
another server for this. If not, we may have to live without pserver and
I could just make the raw cvsroot directory available for downloading to
allow CVS to be used locally elsewhere in the same manner as pserver
(i.e., to get updates from my repository).

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Pavel Roskin | 1 Oct 2006 08:10
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Re: what happened to the anonymous cvs repository?

Hi, Jouni!

On Sat, 2006-09-30 at 16:51 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 06:21:49PM -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:
> 
> > The CVS server was up yesterday.  Hopefully it will be fixed soon.
> 
> Yesterday? Well, maybe in some time zones. The server I used for
> hostap.epitest.fi died on Thursday and I had to move the pages to
> another server. Both the CVS pserver and Bugzilla are down at the
> moment because of this.

Well, I guess I was too sleepy on Friday :)

> However, taken into account how much extra effort is needed for setting
> up CVS pserver in a secure way, I don't think I will be doing it again.

I'm not sure you have seen this (just the first hit on Google for
"secure pserver"):

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-CVS-Pserver/

It doesn't look terribly hard to me.

> Especially so, since I'm likely to stop using CVS for new development in
> the near future.

That's a good idea, but it would be great to keep uninterrupted access
to the revision history while it's happening.
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Pavel Roskin | 1 Oct 2006 09:12
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

Hello!

On Mon, 2006-09-25 at 21:42 +0200, ronald wrote:
> hallo all
> 
> i'm quit sure my question was often send to the list, but searching the 
> web and reading and reading i simple get confused.
> 
> lspci -nv:
>       1260:3890 (rev 01)
> sub: 16a5:1605
> 
> a got this old prism based card 2 years ago and i'm not sure if
> i'll get it running with wpa in some way.

Quick search on Google shows that this card supports 802.11g, so it
should be using the prism54 driver.

> the prism54 mailing list seems to be dead, related sites are not 
> available since some weeks (dead links).

prism54.org is up.  islsm.org is down.

> first of all:
> is my card (prism III -iirc fullmac-) the same as the so called prism3 ?
> or in general is it supported by hostap ?

No, it's not prism 3 and it's not compatible with hostap.

> if i read http://hostap.epitest.fi/hostapd/
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Michael Sharman | 1 Oct 2006 14:46
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hostap/linux + airport extreme problems

Hi,

Has anyone got any tips for configuring a Linux + hostapd based  
access point that will work with Apple Airport Extreme cards?

Presently I've got a setup that works fine with many PC based  
wireless cards but seems to be very unreliable with an Apple AIrport  
Extreme wireless card as a client;  the Airport Extreme cards  
associate  but a ping shows only every second packet at best getting  
through, this makes networking extremely slow and unreliable often  
leading to the connection dropping out completely.

The access point hardware is the following:
	- Pentium 200 MMX aith 96Mb of RAM running Debian Sarge with a  
custom 2.6.16 compiled kernel
	- D-Link DWL-650 11Mbps WLAN Card in a PCMCIA to PCI adaptor

The clients:
	- Mac OS 10.4 (PPC) iBook G4, Airport Extreme; associates but  
doesn't maintain reliable connection, after a period of time  
disassociates
	- Mac OS 10.4 (Intel) Macbook, Airport Extreme; associates but  
doesn't maintain reliable connection, after a period of time  
disassociates
	- WIndows XP Dell laptop, built in wireless; works flawlessly.
	- PC Desktop, Celeron, Debian sid, Belkin F5D6001au wireless card  
(using the open source drivers; http://rtl8180- 
sa2400.sourceforge.net/) kernel 2.6.16; works flawlessly

So far it's only been the airport extreme cards that I've had any
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ronald warsow | 1 Oct 2006 16:10
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

hallo pavel
thanks for reply

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 03:12 -0400, Pavel Roskin wrote:

....
> > lspci -nv:
> >       1260:3890 (rev 01)
> > sub: 16a5:1605
> > 
> > a got this old prism based card 2 years ago and i'm not sure if
> > i'll get it running with wpa in some way.
> 
> Quick search on Google shows that this card supports 802.11g, so it
> should be using the prism54 driver.

i know that and i run this card since 2 years.
that's not the problem, *wpa* is the question !
and *how* to do it.

> 
> > the prism54 mailing list seems to be dead, related sites are not 
> > available since some weeks (dead links).
> 
> prism54.org is up.  islsm.org is down.
> 
> > first of all:
> > is my card (prism III -iirc fullmac-) the same as the so called prism3 ?
> > or in general is it supported by hostap ?
>
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Jouni Malinen | 1 Oct 2006 17:30
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:10:24PM +0000, ronald warsow wrote:

> that card is able to act as an ap, but wep only.
> and
> this is the part from the site (just above download)
> ...
> Supported wireless cards/drivers
>       * Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
>       * madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
>       * Prism54.org (Prism GT/Duette/Indigo)

_One_ version of Prism54 driver worked with hostapd. If I understood
correctly, the version in the kernel tree may not work. This issue has
come up before, but so far, I have not seen anyone who would be
interested in making the driver work. As long as this continues, I would
not expect much luck with the latest Prism54 drivers when tried with
hostapd. I'll try to remember to update the hostapd web page by adding
something along lines "used to work with a version; may not work with
current versions".

> the driver works, but i want/need wpa.

Just for AP mode?

> so i came to hostap and as stated above: hostap has(???) driver support
> for prism54 cards, but i can't get it running...

Please note that "hostap" for me means the Prism2/Prism2.5/Prism3
_driver_ and it most certainly does not support Prism54. hostapd is the
user space program that supports a version of Prism54 _driver_.
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chunkeey | 1 Oct 2006 17:50
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:10:24PM +0000, ronald warsow wrote:
> > that card is able to act as an ap, but wep only.
> > and
> > this is the part from the site (just above download)
> > ...
> > Supported wireless cards/drivers
> >       * Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
> >       * madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
> >       * Prism54.org (Prism GT/Duette/Indigo)
>
> _One_ version of Prism54 driver worked with hostapd. If I understood
> correctly, the version in the kernel tree may not work. This issue has
> come up before, but so far, I have not seen anyone who would be
> interested in making the driver work. As long as this continues, I would
> not expect much luck with the latest Prism54 drivers when tried with
> hostapd. I'll try to remember to update the hostapd web page by adding
> something along lines "used to work with a version; may not work with
> current versions".
>

and, before I forget it (again), you can also remove the special prism54.org 
driver from wpa_supplicant. It's now supported through Linux' WEXT. (as of 
2.6.18-git15).

BTW, (do you remember the driver_madwifi.c bug in
set_sta_flags ?). I said, I have a patch for the hostap-daemon to get the 
prism54 card. I wanted to post a patch but unfortunatly,
it was too large. If you want it, ask maxi <at> daemonizer.de.

And something OT:
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ronald warsow | 1 Oct 2006 19:26
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

thanks for reply !

On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 08:30 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:10:24PM +0000, ronald warsow wrote:
> 
> > that card is able to act as an ap, but wep only.
> > and
> > this is the part from the site (just above download)
> > ...
> > Supported wireless cards/drivers
> >       * Host AP driver for Prism2/2.5/3
> >       * madwifi (Atheros ar521x)
> >       * Prism54.org (Prism GT/Duette/Indigo)
> 
> _One_ version of Prism54 driver worked with hostapd. If I understood
> correctly, the version in the kernel tree may not work. This issue has
> come up before, but so far, I have not seen anyone who would be
> interested in making the driver work. 
...
it seems to me it's a sort of "hot iron" for developer to do so.
could it be that it has something to do with "conexant bought
intersil" ?
it looks like a "break" of driver development when this happend.
there is something a can feel/smell...
...
> As long as this continues, I would
> not expect much luck with the latest Prism54 drivers when tried with
> hostapd. I'll try to remember to update the hostapd web page by adding
> something along lines "used to work with a version; may not work with
> current versions".
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Jouni Malinen | 1 Oct 2006 19:39
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Re: hostap support for my card ?

On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 07:26:16PM +0200, ronald warsow wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 08:30 -0700, Jouni Malinen wrote:
> > As long as this continues, I would
> > not expect much luck with the latest Prism54 drivers when tried with
> > hostapd. I'll try to remember to update the hostapd web page by adding
> > something along lines "used to work with a version; may not work with
> > current versions".
> 
> how can i identify that *magical* version ?

Unfortunately, I do not have that level of detail readily available, I
just know that it did work at some point. The easiest way of figuring
this out could be to go through the driver_prism54.c history and then go
to the mailing list archives at around that time. This version was not
in the kernel tree, so one of the external releases..

> > Just for AP mode?
> 
> no, client mode would be adequate, but i wasn't able to associate it
> with my ap and that's my big trouble.

OK. Client mode is going to be more difficult since that has never
worked with fullmac to the best of my knowledge..

> but -btw- the driver/card/firmware *is* able to do wpa, i would believe
> it could do wpa in ap mode also. 

I know the firmware works with WPA in AP mode. The problem was in
getting client mode working with fullmac (I haven't heard of anyone
been able to do it; the Windows drivers are likely to use softmac for
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clockwork | 1 Oct 2006 21:01

Re: ipw3945 & WEP

So nobody can offer any assistance with this ?

On 9/28/06, clockwork <at> sigsys.org < clockwork <at> sigsys.org> wrote:
So I am using ipw3945, which works great for non-encrypted networks, and works great for my wpa2 network. However when I try to use static WEP I dont associate with the AP. The light on my thinkpad goes ape (blinking hyper-fast) then goes solid for a few seconds, then hyper again. The repeats non-stop. The first question I have is if my config is ok or not:

network={
        ssid="work"
        key_mgmt=NONE
        wep_key0=$hexversionofkey
        priority=5
        wep_tx_keyidx=0
        auth_alg=SHARED
}
network={
        ssid="home"
        proto=WPA2
        key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
        priority=5
        psk=$wpakey
        pairwise=CCMP
        group=CCMP
}

The second question would be if anyone has this working or not ? What kernel modules are required (besides ipw3945) I have ieee80211_crypt_wep ieee80211 ieee80211_crypt_ccmp loaded.

Applicable versions:
ieee80211 1.1.13
wpa_supplicant 0.5.4
ipw3945 1.1.0

Thanks for any help

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