[Bug 1391] setting WEP key through iwconfig does not work

[Sean McNeil]

Oops, I didn't answer your question though :)

The file with the restriction isn't an OM file. The header says:

Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Atheros Communications Inc.

I've attached a patch in bugzilla.

Sean McNeil wrote:
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> This is not normal behavior. I've run into this problem on the project 
> that I'm working. It appears that an artificial restriction was placed 
> on setting the WEP keys.
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> Benedikt Schindler wrote:
>> but is that a OM bug?
>> It sounds more like a bug for the madwifi programmers.
>> ath5k is still in a early stage of programming. (so far i know)
>> And they don't have ported every feature from the madwifi driver yet.
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>> bugzilla-daemon at bugzilla.openmoko.org schrieb:
>>> http://bugzilla.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1391
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>>> ------- Additional Comments From graeme at openmoko.org  2008-05-13 
>>> 11:18 -------
>>> Ah interesting, iwconfig eth0 key s:XXXXX works before iwconfig eth0 
>>> essid, but
>>> not afterwards. This is clearly a bug.
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