From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 10:15:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1449F37B40D for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f8EHFma26076; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15:48 -0700 Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:15:48 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Leo Bicknell Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility? Message-ID: <20010914101548.B7169@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20010914150203.A30720@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <20010914103037.A5619@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010914103037.A5619@ussenterprise.ufp.org>; from bicknell@ufp.org on Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:30:37AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:30:37AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:02:03PM +0100, Rasputin wrote: > > Is there any difference between Gold and Silver cards from > > a compatibility standpoint (with the usual Apple Airport cards)? >=20 > With WEP encryption turned off they both work together fine. I've > seen many used in mixed enviornments. With WEP turned on, they > are completely incomptable. The silver cards do a 40 bit encryption, > and the gold cards do a 128 bit encryption, and it seems the gold > cards can't be stepped back to 40 bit. Unless Apple is mangling the firmware or someone screwed up the driver, this is false. Gold Lucent cards are capable of 40-bit crypto. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7ojtDXY6L6fI4GtQRAhPAAKCUxpATwfHzUfEremCPh6awX4/3BQCgq/IA T0b47d2Xa87aLIu4CNv1gmw= =B8gu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --lEGEL1/lMxI0MVQ2-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message