From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 06:39:37 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2159616A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:39:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC19043D68 for ; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 06:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0FEdY6T073969; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:39:34 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <4006A60E.2050602@centtech.com> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 08:39:10 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Atsushi Onoe References: <20040115134602O.hanche@math.ntnu.no> <200401151434.i0FEYXqX029258@nest.sm.sony.co.jp> In-Reply-To: <200401151434.i0FEYXqX029258@nest.sm.sony.co.jp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: D-Link DWL-AG650, AirPort Extreme, and WEP X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:39:37 -0000 Atsushi Onoe wrote: >This is primarily due to AirPort uses "shared" authentication mode >whenever WEP is enabled, and the 802.11 framework doesn't support >the mode at this moment. > >But I've heard that AirPort generates actual wep key from configured >"password". So I guess you need to know the generated wep key somehow >once shared authmode is supported. > > Speaking of shared mode - is anyone working on this currently? I'm in need of it (badly), and have not heard anything about it. Has work been started on it, and is there any beta code I can start playing with? I'm already -current so living on the edge is no problem :) Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------