[laptop-discuss] Re: Re: Re: ath vs. dhcpagent

Casper.Dik at Sun.COM Casper.Dik at Sun.COM
Tue Oct 24 05:13:54 PDT 2006


>> Sorry, the WPA2 will use the CCMP crypto algorithm,
>> but the ath driver 
>> (v0.5)
>> can't support CCMP; this will be added in future.
>I heard the Atheros adapters support CCMP in hardware. 
>I noticed that there is a ath_hal.o.uu among the sources to ath-0.5. Is that a closed source low-l
evel interface to Atheros hardware? Who provides that? Is CCMP lack of support related to that file
?


The o.uu file is a closed source file from Atheros (compiled by a single
person who has access to the source).

As for lack of CCMP support, that file might or might not be to blame.

Casper




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