[Wirelessdriver-devel] Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] WEP Functionality

[yuriwho <yu...@ma...>]

Curtis,

	Interesting that the Orinoco Gold cards appear to be different from 
the WaveLAN gold cards. What type of access point is driving your 128 
bit network?

	As far as keychain support for the prefpane is concerned, that is 
an interesting idea. I know that Dave was planning to implement a 
mechanism for saving passwords to a pref file (or pw file) but I don't 
know if he has considered keychain support. Do you think it would work 
well with saving multiple networks and passwords? If so, perhaps you and 
dave should discuss it. Please post any future development discussion to 
the devel list.

Thanks for your feedback & interest in helping,

Y

On Thursday, December 13, 2001, at 12:24 PM, Curtis Laser wrote:

> I am running Mac OS X 10.1.1 (build 5M28). Version 1.1.0 of 
> IOPCCardFamily.kext and version 1.0.1b2 of WirelessDriver.kext.
>
> I connect to both a 128 bit and 40 bit encrypted networks. I have tried 
> a number of cards with this version of the software.
>
> Using an Orinoco Gold card I can connect to the 128 bit encrypted 
> network, but not to the 40 bit encrypted network. The WEP key for the 
> 128 bit network is a simple hex representation of the ASCII characters 
> in the key. I tried both this approach and getting the key from Airport 
> Config's utility with the 40 bit network and neither worked.
>
> I thought I might be doing something wrong, so I tried a Silver card 
> (HP branded but essentially a silver Orinoco card) and this was able to 
> connect to the 40 bit network (using the key from Airport Config) 
> without problems. I suspect that there is a problem for Orinoco Gold 
> cards accessing a 40 bit encrypted network.
>
> I can also confirm that I could connect to neither network using a 
> WaveLAN gold card.
>
> I have considered adding Keychain support to the Wireless Config panel, 
> but before I start mucking with the code I wanted to know how much 
> turmoil that part of the code is currently experiencing, I wouldn't 
> want to step on your toes.
>
> Thanks for all your hard work!
> Curtis Laser