From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Apr 3 11:45: 9 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from moek.pir.net (moek.pir.net [130.64.1.215]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C47937B41A for ; Wed, 3 Apr 2002 11:45:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pir by moek.pir.net with local (Exim) id 16sqgn-0005Ak-00 for freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org; Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:45:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 Apr 2002 14:45:00 -0500 From: Peter Radcliffe To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Getting wi and wicontrol under control Message-ID: <20020403194500.GD17454@pir.net> Reply-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <20020403192705.9B2245DDC5@segue.merit.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020403192705.9B2245DDC5@segue.merit.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-fish: < X-Copy-On-Listmail: Please do NOT Cc: me on list mail. Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Richard S. Conto" probably said: > When I tried to use a Lucent/Agere/Orinoco Gold 802.11b card with > encryption turned on, it choked. I couldn't use 128 bit encryption, > and when I tried 40 bit encryption, I got long delays and lots of > retransmitted packets with a throughput of an ancient 300 baud/bps modem. > If you search around, you'll see some comments about how the > interface to this card isn't published, except through some simple > minded API (that the "wi" code was based on.) Someone has worked > with Lucent/Orinoco/Agere to get encryption working, but hasn't been > able to release it due to licensing issues. Uh, excuse me ? Some of us have been using 128bit encryption with Lucent gold cards, freebsd and the wi driver for a couple of years. Your information is vasly out of date and grossly incorrect. > I suspect you'll have to run without encryption. False. > The War-Drivers will love you. MAC address filtering won't help > much. It's sort of like closing the door without locking it. (Not > that 802.11b/WEP is all that secure anymore. WEP is useful as a first step, it should not be trusted as real encryption. P. -- pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message