Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Network Configuration & Wireless Driver

[Bruce R. <ri...@ma...>]

On Sunday, September 8, 2002, at 03:48 AM, yuriwho wrote:

> Bruce,
>
> 	Is it possible that when you re-booted, your Airport card connected 
> to the Campus connection? Right now, the WirelessDriver only supports 
> 128 bit connections with the Orinoco Gold card, it may be that your 
> campus network has 40/64 bit encryption and you are unable to connect 
> with the WirelessDriver/Gold card but the Airport card can connect to 
> the 40/64 bit encrypted network.

It wasn't the Airport card which connected. I was out of its range and 
I had turned it off as well with Internet Connect before rebooting.  It 
was definitely the Lucent card which made the connection after 
rebooting. I even got the Internet Connect warning message, "You do not 
have an active modem, AirPort, or PPPoE network port configuration" at 
the same time that the Lucent card picked up a valid (137.238.xxx.yyy 
IP address, a valid submask number, and was identified correctly by its 
ethernet address.

I'm running with WEP disabled. My base station at home is the original 
model of the Apple Airport Base station. This does not support 128 bit 
encryption and the Gold card only does 128 bit encryption. I can 
connect the two as long as I am not using WEP.


> The re-boot would have caused your system to look for available 
> network interfaces and connect with whatever was working. Often the 
> network preference pane will show you the what you last configured 
> interface even though it is using a different interface to connect 
> currently. To test this you can turn off the airport card from the 
> Airport menuextra when you are connected to your campus network...I'll 
> wager that this will kill your connection.
>
> I observe similar weird behavior with the network preference pane 
> currently. For example, I can boot without the 3rd party card and 
> connect with the Airport card, I then power off the Airport card off 
> via the menu extra and lose my connection, insert an orinoco silver 
> card and open the wirelessdriver prefpane and was connected 
> again----however en2 is still greyed out in my network preferences 
> pane even though I am connected via en2. I can confirm this with and 
> ifconfig -a command from the terminal. The Network prefpane is not 
> reflecting the current status of my network interface.
>
> I think you have identified a bug in the network prefpane.


Maybe the bug is in the Apple Internet Connect utility. It does not 
appear to be able to identify the Lucent (en2) service. What do people 
who have only a PC wireless card see in the Internet Connect menu? 
AirPort? Lucnet? Nothing?

The wireless driver is working fine and I'm most pleased with your 
efforts.

---bwr