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Bug ID 6551525
Synopsis ath brokenness with wep on snv_62
State 10-Fix Delivered (Fix available in build)
Category:Subcategory driver:wifi
Keywords
Responsible Engineer Quaker Fang
Reported Against snv_64
Duplicate Of
Introduced In solaris_nevada
Commit to Fix snv_66
Fixed In snv_66
Release Fixed solaris_nevada(snv_66)
Related Bugs 6484943
Submit Date 30-April-2007
Last Update Date 7-June-2007
Description
Described by Erik Nordmark
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I think this issue has been around for a while, but now with NWAM I trip on it all the time. Running snv_62 as I test this.

With ath (but pcwl doesn't have this issue) there is an order dependency between -e and -k on the connect-wifi command line.

This works:
ifconfig ath0 plumb
dladm connect-wifi -e netgear -k nwam-netgear-0.f.66.87.3.b2 ath0
ifconfig ath0 dhcp start primary

But this does not work:
ifconfig ath0 plumb
dladm connect-wifi -k nwam-netgear-0.f.66.87.3.b2 -e netgear ath0
ifconfig ath0 dhcp start primary

The connect-wifi succeeds, but dhcp times out. When I look with snoop I see that I can receive packets just fine, but none of the packets transmitted by DHCPagent make it to the DHCP server.
Could it be that somehow the transmit key(?) isn't been set correctly with the second order of -k/-e.

As I said, with pcwl both orders work.
Work Around
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Comments
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