From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 14 10:34:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from smtpproxy1.mitre.org (smtpproxy1.mitre.org [129.83.20.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A185737B412 for ; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 10:34:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from avsrv1.mitre.org (avsrv1.mitre.org [129.83.20.58]) by smtpproxy1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8EHX8c06830; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:33:08 -0400 (EDT) Received: from MAILHUB2 (mailhub2.mitre.org [129.83.221.18]) by smtpsrv1.mitre.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f8EHX5f19548; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:33:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dhcp-105-164.mitre.org (128.29.105.164) by mailhub2.mitre.org with SMTP id 7727758; Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:32:42 -0400 Message-ID: <3BA23F2E.23F68B29@mitre.org> Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 13:32:30 -0400 From: Jason Andresen Organization: The MITRE Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en]C-20000818M (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: Leo Bicknell , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility? References: <20010914150203.A30720@shaft.techsupport.co.uk> <20010914103037.A5619@ussenterprise.ufp.org> <20010914101548.B7169@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Brooks Davis wrote: > > 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)? > > > > 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. Aren't the airport cards just plain old Silver Lucent cards? If so, then either the Gold or the Silver should work fine. In fact I know the silver works fine because I have an Airport at home that I talk to with a Silver card. There's a FreeBSD port that lets you configure the box from your machine. In Windowsland there's a program called FreeBase, and of course the Airport comes with Mac tools bundled. -- \ |_ _|__ __|_ \ __| Jason Andresen jandrese@mitre.org |\/ | | | / _| Network and Distributed Systems Engineer _| _|___| _| _|_\___| Office: 703-883-7755 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message