linux-kernel - Re: Weird wireless/wpa

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Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:03:54 +0100
From:	Holger Schurig <holgerschurig@...il.com>
To:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Weird wireless/wpa_supplicant screw-up.

> The problem is a combination of things - (a) iwlist and iwconfig report no
> crypto and (b) there doesn't seem to be any *other* way for userspace to
> find out that in fact you have an encrypted WPA2 connection.

That's not true.


I'm using cfg80211 with wpa_supplicant (even when I only use WEP, despite the 
name of the wpa_supplicant application!).

And in this case, you can use "wpa_cli status" and well see all the details, 
no matter if you use WPA, WPA2, WEXT or some of the 802.11x derivates:

# wpa_cli status
Selected interface 'wlan0'
bssid=00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
ssid=MUMBLEFUTZ
id=0
mode=station
pairwise_cipher=WEP-40
group_cipher=WEP-40
key_mgmt=NONE
wpa_state=COMPLETED
ip_address=172.16.xxx.xx

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