From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 3 8:55:34 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [209.192.237.190]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA4BE37B4C5 for ; Fri, 3 Nov 2000 08:55:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 13rk7m-0004oV-00 for freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 03 Nov 2000 11:55:30 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2000 11:55:29 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using WaveLAN with Apple Airport base station Message-ID: <20001103115529.A14429@pir.net> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from evenson@panix.com on Fri, Nov 03, 2000 at 10:58:03AM -0500 X-fish: < Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Evenson probably said: > I have tried both disabling WEP encryption, and enabling it (using the > proper "Network Equivalent Password"). I've heard a rumor that the WEP encryption password is used oddly on the airports when configured from the Apple software. You could try using the freeware java configurator and see what it says your WEP key is; http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/ > I have tried both IBSS (using both the proper name and the parameter ANY') > and ad-hoc on the card. Use IBSS with an empty network name; wicontrol -n "" Even if the encryption is wrong, if you get the network name right (empty with, as you say, an open network) you should see the current netname and comms quality in the output of 'wicontrol'. > The Airport base station is configured to not "create a closed network". and you have no MAC addresses in the restricted access table ? > Are Gold cards (what is in the laptop) fundamentally unable to talk to > Silver cards (what the both the Airport base station and card are)? Gold cards can work fine with silver cards, assuming you get WEP set up correctly (same length and same content WEP keys at both ends). P. -- pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message