D-Link DWL-AG650, AirPort Extreme, and WEP

Eric Anderson anderson at centtech.com
Thu Jan 15 06:39:37 PST 2004


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



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