Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 08:50:01 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: "Omer Faruk Sen" <freebsd@faruk.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Advice: 128 bit wep and Prism chipset Message-ID: <20031002155001.4881A5D07@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Message from "Omer Faruk Sen" <freebsd@faruk.net> <20031002131316.49422.qmail@fuzuli.enderunix.org>
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> From: "Omer Faruk Sen" <freebsd@faruk.net> > Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 09:13:16 -0400 > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > Hi. > > The company I worked for is going to buy some wireless PCI and PCMCIA cards. > I have insisted on buying Prism II, Prism 2.5 or Prism 3 chipset based cards > since I can use them as an Access Point with FreeBSD installed. > > As far as I have searched on internet Prism 2,2.5,3 chipset based cards > support only 40 bit wep but my company insist on 128 bit wep so I need > suggestions? Which PCI card (for making Access Point) do I have to buy. I > need company,model etc. so we can buy that card. Not that 104 bit WEP will help much, but my Intel (Xircom) card is Prism 2.5 and supports 104 bit WEP. (This means 104 bits of user key with 24 bits of device key for a total of 128 bits. I believe that some cards allow the specification of all 128 bits, but this is not common.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
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