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

[Eric Anderson]

Sam Leffler wrote:

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

Great!  If you need someone to do some testing, I'm up for it.  And I 
have a stack of wireless cards to play with, and many AP's also.

Eric


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