DIR-300: v24sp1 AP, WPA2/PSK is seen as WEP

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axelm
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 11:30    Post subject: DIR-300: v24sp1 AP, WPA2/PSK is seen as WEP Reply with quote
I am using WPA2/PSK AES at home. My client PCs have XP Pro SP3, Vista Ultimate SP1 and OpenSUSE 11.

If I list the available APs, I sometimes see my DIR-300 router being listed as WEP instead of WPA2. After a while it reappears as WPA2.

I suppose this is not normal.

ath0 Scan completed :
Cell 01 - Address: 00:1B:11:D3:AD:57
ESSID:"AxelWifi"
Mode:Master
Frequency:2.412 GHz (Channel 1)
Quality=66/70 Signal level=-29 dBm Noise level=-95 dBm
Encryption key:on
Bit Rates:1 Mb/s; 2 Mb/s; 5.5 Mb/s; 11 Mb/s; 6 Mb/s
9 Mb/s; 12 Mb/s; 18 Mb/s; 24 Mb/s; 36 Mb/s
48 Mb/s; 54 Mb/s
Extra:bcn_int=100
Extra:ath_ie=dd0900037f01010028ff7f
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 12:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
I am attaching a Vistumbler screen capture from Vista.
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PostPosted: Sun Oct 05, 2008 13:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
dd-wrt config is attached
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 0:06    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here´s the nvram contents with password fields removed. I am switching to WEP encryption which apparently works fine.
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 12:14    Post subject: Reply with quote
Should I add this issue to Trac or is this the correct place to get support?

Thanks in advance
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 16:43    Post subject: Reply with quote
so whats the probelm?! cant u connect?
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PostPosted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 16:49    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sash wrote:
so whats the probelm?! cant u connect?


The AP is telling the clients it uses WEP (not true) instead of WPA2/PSK. Windows WZCS and Linux Network Manager are not prompting for the correct encryption keys. Same thing for the Netgear WG311v3 utility.

If I set the crypto params manually, it works.

I have switched over to WEP (yuck) until this is resolved.

I think I should have bought a Broadcom based router instead of this Atheros 4 MB POS.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 20:19    Post subject: Reply with quote
i suggest that your sw cant detect AES correctly

and what about this extended range and super-g b-shit u setted?
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 21:57    Post subject: Reply with quote
Sash wrote:
i suggest that your sw cant detect AES correctly

and what about this extended range and super-g b-shit u setted?


It is not very probable that Linux NetworkManager, Vista Wireless Configuration, and the Netgear Util all have the same problem.

XR and SuperG are Atheros extensions. I have disabled them to check if it makes any difference but apparently it does not.
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PostPosted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 13:00    Post subject: Reply with quote
This is still happening in v24 pre-sp2 10/07/08 test build released yesterday.

It is easy to reproduce because it happens all the time now, lol.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 12:35    Post subject: Reply with quote
axelm wrote:

It is easy to reproduce because it happens all the time now, lol.


It is broadcasting WPA2 now. Uptime is 23 hours. WTF is going on? WEP - WPA2 - WEP - WPA2. Really crazy behaviour. And it's not the clients.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 20:41    Post subject: Reply with quote
Follow-up on this issue:

This problem reappeared, so I reset to default values and reconfigured for WPA2/PSK/AES. It has been working ok for the last 20 hours. Finger crossed, otherwise I will revert to factory firmware because I will NOT use WEP.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 16, 2008 21:48    Post subject: Reply with quote
i have this same problem. i posted about it a while back.

v24 sp1 on fonera WPA shows up WPA
v24 sp1 on ar430w WPA shows up WEP
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 2:16    Post subject: Reply with quote
Same here -- except my Airlink AR430W says in the status and settings that it is WPA2 Personal Mixed but the client says there is no encryption at all and a number of leeches are connecting to my AP now.
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PostPosted: Fri Oct 17, 2008 15:56    Post subject: Reply with quote
qualheim wrote:
Same here -- except my Airlink AR430W says in the status and settings that it is WPA2 Personal Mixed but the client says there is no encryption at all and a number of leeches are connecting to my AP now.


+1

Same thing here again after 24 hours. The DIR300 v24pre-sp2 web ui shows WPA2/PSK/AES, but the clients say there is no encryption at all. If I ssh into the DIR300 and do iwconfig, it shows that ath0 is is master mode, and that encryption is off.
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