Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:18:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Bob Ney <bney@quiknet.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interoperability Message-ID: <200010131618.JAA97379@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20001012195715.A28018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> from Brooks Davis at "Oct 12, 2000 07:57:15 pm"
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Brooks Davis writes:
| On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:36:18PM -0700, Bob Ney wrote:
| > A general question for the list. I keep hearing that the Aironet is not yet
| > as good as the Wavelan cards. Why? What does Wavelan do better. Opinions,
| > speculations, rants and incantations are welcomed.
|
| So far, I haven't been able to get an Aironet card to connect to an
| access point running with all the security options enabled even with
| the encryption patches. I'm not convinced that it should work with
| them since they are missing the ability to set the transmit key which
| is required for things to work. Without that functionality, they aren't
| going to work on FreeBSD on a network my company security officer will
| let me deploy.
Huh? How is the "transmit key" different from the WEP key????
ancontrol -i iface [-v 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7] -k key (set key)
Note the even number are permanent and the odd are
temporary. I let you set four keys. The permanent
key are permanent until you re-write them.
The other things needed are:
ancontrol -i iface -K 0|1|2|4 (set auth type 2=shared secret)
I just found out the option 4 isn't real and you
can do 3 as well.
ancontrol -i iface -W 0|1 (enable WEP)
I just found out 2 is an option as well (with my
old version you can set 2 it just won't tell you the
difference).
Their programming doc. needs some help.
I've set keys and WEP between 3 Aironet cards. One, my wife's running
Windows the other 2 only with the FreeBSD driver. I don't have time right
now to do testing with an access point since I won't be at work next week.
| On the other hand, I really want them to work because I think they are
| better cards in the enterprise. The primary feature is the ability to
| set permanent keys which are write only which allows you to deploy a
| network with encryption keys without effectivly telling the whole world
| what they are. One of the Linux drivers totally destroys this feature
| which is really stupid IMNSHO. Also, my experience with the base Lucent
I tried to give more flexibility then the Linux version. Also I had to
do a fair amount of work to expose all of the Aironet options I could
since the WaveLen doesn't seem to have as many options.
Doug A.
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