[Cbe-oss-dev] GELIC Wifi problems

[Adam Clark]

With a bit more playing around I think I have found a bug which has to
do with SSIDs that are not part of the broadcast beacon.

> Please set the essid after the key, like the following:
>
> # iwconfig eth1 key <your WEP key>
> # iwconfig eth1 essid <your AP essid>

This procedure ends up with the same situation.  ethtool believes the
the link is up, the green light is on.  If I manually set an IP
address and attempt to ping the access point, the light does not
flicker.  ifconfig for the interface reports Tx packets, but no Rx
packets

The Fedora 7 Kernel:
eth0      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"PS3"  Nickname:"ps3.home"
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.442 GHz  Access Point: 00:17:DF:10:63:90
          Bit Rate:54 Mb/s
          Encryption key:****-****-****-****-****-****-**
          Link Quality=75/100  Signal level=-52 dBm
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

The new kernel:
eth1      IEEE 802.11bg  ESSID:"PS3"  Nickname:"gelic_wl"
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: 00:12:BF:1A:50:9A
          Encryption key:1234-5678-90AB-CDEF-1234-5678-90   Security mode:open
          Link Signal level=100/100
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

Notice the different MAC addresses.

# iwlist
          Cell 02 - Address: 00:17:DF:10:63:90
                    ESSID:"HummadaHummada"
                    Channel:7
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Encryption key:on
                    Mode:Master
                    Signal level=72/100
                    IE: IEEE 802.11i/WPA2 Version 1
                        Group Cipher : CCMP
                        Pairwise Ciphers (1) : CCMP
                        Authentication Suites (1) : PSK
          Cell 03 - Address: 00:12:BF:1A:50:9A
                    ESSID:"TREEHOUSE"
                    Channel:4
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 22 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s
                              36 Mb/s; 48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Encryption key:on
                    Mode:Master
                    Signal level=20/100

HummadaHummada is the SSID that normally carries the beacon on my AP.
In this situation it has associated itself with TREEHOUSE (another AP
in my building somewhere).  Configuring the following on my Cisco AP:

cisco-877w(config-ssid)#dot11 ssid HummadaHummada
cisco-877w(config-ssid)#no guest-mode
cisco-877w(config-ssid)#dot11 ssid PS3
cisco-877w(config-ssid)#guest-mode

now has my PS3 SSID carry the beacon:
# iwlist
          Cell 01 - Address: 00:17:DF:10:63:90
                    ESSID:"PS3"
                    Channel:7
                    Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s; 9 Mb/s
                              11 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
                              48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
                    Encryption key:on
                    Mode:Master
                    Signal level=87/100

I performed the iwconfig commands and it came up.  Full connectivity.

So it works fine only when it is associating with the beacon SSID.
HummadaHummada is my WPA2-PSK SSID, so I dont want to leave my WEP
SSID advertised.  While using WPA2 would be a solution in this case, I
believe there is a patch required to be applied to wpa_supplicant.

Anyway, this is good.  Progress

Regards

Adam