[Wirelessdriver-support] 128WEP, Lucent Silver & OS10.2, any luck?

[Jan V. <it...@ma...>]

Hello,

Has anyone had any luck with 128 bit WEP on a Lucent WaveLAN Silver (or 
similar, eg ORiNOCO Silver) card under OS 10.2 yet? Things didn't seem 
too promising back around 2002-09-11 in the thread "Can't get WEP to 
work in b5".

A couple of years ago using a WallStreet Powerbook G3 I was having no 
problems connecting to an unencrypted Graphite Airport network through 
that Lucent WaveLAN Silver card under OS 10.2.?, however when I tried 
turning WEP on I was unable to get things to work. So we left 
encryption off and I happily used WirelessDriver to connect to the 
network for a number of months (as a result I'm thoroughly grateful for 
the work that was put into WirelessDriver, thanks!).

The WallStreet laptop was then retired for a while. However, recently 
I've started using it again for some testing. Unfortunately disabling 
encryption isn't really an option anymore, and using a pair of Airport 
Extremes connected via WDS, and OS 10.2.8 on the laptop, I'm having 
similar problems to what I did a couple of years ago and to what it 
appeared people were having in the aforementioned email.

I can see a substantial amount of signal from the network. However, 
after entering the WEP hex key and hitting Apply Now, it continues to 
use a self assigned IP address (manually setting it up to something 
that should be on the network is of no help, it still can't talk to 
it). In previous posts some people mentioned the WirelessConfig pref 
pane reverting to Airport Password 40bit and no key when restarting 
their computer, I in fact get this behaviour when simply quitting and 
reopening System Preferences (despite the keychain having the correct 
key for the network).

Any ideas or has anyone had any luck with a similar setup?

Thanks,
Jan Vaughan