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

Sam Leffler sam at errno.com
Thu Jan 15 07:16:23 PST 2004


On Thursday 15 January 2004 06:39 am, Eric Anderson wrote:
> 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 :)

I have working code in my perforce branch but no time to commit it.  I 
actually have a large number of net80211 changes pending commit there (it 
includes a merge of the netbsd changes).

	Sam



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