Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 10:35:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com>, Bob Ney <bney@quiknet.com>, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interoperability Message-ID: <200010131735.KAA98351@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <20001013095916.A28198@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> from Brooks Davis at "Oct 13, 2000 09:59:16 am"
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Brooks Davis writes:
| On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:18:06AM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote:
| > Brooks Davis writes:
| > | 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.
|
| You can set any of the eight WEP keys, but you must also select the one
| you will actually use as the transmit key. See the -T option to
| wicontrol. This is something you can do with the windows key manager.
Missed that. Last time I looked at wicontrol it didn't deal with
multiple keys. I think I figured out what that means in term of programming
the card. There is a note in the manual says "The address {1,0,0,0,0,0}
is used to denote the default key". I currently write that whenever
a key is stored. This would imply that you could switch the default
key by changing the key in a slot. It's a kludge for now but it might
be something to experiment with. I wonder how I update this bit of the
key entry without clobbering the key. Maybe I can write a short record
that only has that info.
Maybe the guy that works at Cisco and has access to the engineers can
answer this.
| I'll do some more debugging today. I'll try and figure out exactly
| which AP options are breaking things.
That would be great. I have been playing a little with Windows trying
to get it to work with an access point with WEP on and even it isn't
working. If you could give me any hints on a working setup then it
might be easier getting the FreeBSD part working.
Thanks,
Doug A.
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