Larry Finger Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net writes:
Since the driver was first introduced into the kernel, it has only handled the ciphers associated with WEP, WPA, and WPA2. It fails with WPA3 even though mac80211 can handle those additional ciphers in software, b43 did not report that it could handle them. By setting MFP_CAPABLE using ieee80211_set_hw(), the problem is fixed.
With this change, b43 will handle the ciohers it knows in hardare,
I'll change this to:
"ciphers it knows in hardware"
and let mac80211 handle the others in software. It is not necessary to use the module parameter NOHWCRYPT to turn hardware encryption off. Although this change essentially eliminates that module parameter, I am choosing to keep it for cases where the hardware is broken, and software encryption is required for all ciphers.
This patch fixes a prooblem that has been in the driver since it was first merged with commit e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices").
Fixes e4d6b7951812 ("[B43]: add mac80211-based driver for modern BCM43xx devices")
I consider this as a new feature, not a bugfix. So I'll remove the Fixes line and the paragraph above it. Ok?