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Date:      Mon, 6 Aug 2001 21:24:32 -0400
From:      Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net>
To:        mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMC2632W wireless card for $99.
Message-ID:  <20010806212431.A6614@pir.net>
In-Reply-To: <200108070056.RAA16901@mina.soco.agilent.com>; from darrylo@soco.agilent.com on Mon, Aug 06, 2001 at 05:56:21PM -0700
References:  <20010805161846.F22031@pir.net> <200108070056.RAA16901@mina.soco.agilent.com>

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Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> probably said:
>      Are you using ASCII WEP keys, as opposed to hex WEP keys?  If
> ASCII, another possibility is that SMC, like Linksys, is munging the
> ASCII WEP password in some strange way.  With Linksys hardware, you've
> got to use hex keys to make things interoperate (as well as apply
> Linux/FreeBSD patches to talk to a Linksys access point).

I had to put hex keys in the base stations to get it working, but
everything but that card is working just fine. I'm also using a hex
key on the client end.

>      Hmm.  If you're really desperate, this *might* be worth
> investigating:

Hardly desperate, I just use my Cisco 350 card or my lucent cards ...

>	http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=164039+167666+/usr/local/www/db/text/2001/freebsd-mobile/20010520.freebsd-mobile

Not that problem. This is a client end WEP problem not a base station
issue.

P.

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