Re: [PATCH] staging: r8712u: Fix driver to support ad-hoc mode

[clemens fischer]

> Jeff Chua:

> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 12:40 AM, clemens fischer
>
> >> Jeff Chua:
>
> >> You wish just came true. To use plain iwconfig with wpa_supplicant,
>
> That was my mistake. It should read "To use plain iwconfig _WITHOUT_
> wpa_supplicant" ...

Ahh!  Very good!  Have to try it now... and it works indeed!  This is
nice.  I never tried all combinations in the order of applying sbin/ip
and sbin/iwconfig.  Did you simply try or was the hint burried in the
sources somewhere?

To clarify things:  I needed to make an access-point, but didn't want to
buy proper, ie. supported hardware at this time, so I settled for adhoc.
It works good enough, even if I have to monitor traffic from time to
time for breakins due to weak WEP security.

> >> here's what you need to do ...
> >> just remember that the "order" is important ... you must set the
> >> encryption key "before" you bring up the interface!!! This applies to
> >> non-realtek devices as well.
>
>
> > This was my reason for prefering iwconfig(8) in the first place after
> > realizing that this little USB WLAN stick cannot be used for WPE, only
> > for Ad-hoc with WPA.
>
> huh? WPE ... do you mean WEP?

Sorry.  You're right.  WPE is short for "Want Peppered Encheladas", of
course.

BTW, thanks for taking this topic all through with me, you are a big
help  =8^)


regards, clemens
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