[Wirelessdriver-support] Re: Wirelessdriver-support digest, Vol 1 #594 - 1 msg

[Paul L. <61...@vi...>]

jan

my heart goes out to you. but you canNOT get 128 bit WEP on a
ORiNOCO Silver. none, 40 or forget it.  i'm clueless about the Lucent
WaveLAN Silver.  i was fine setting up the original graphite airport 
(40 bit only)
using a orinoco gold at 40 bit. for wep to work at all with 3rd party 
cards,
see http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108058 .
what solved all my problems then was to use a 5 character password. try 
that.

but since i replaced the graphite airport with the snow dual ethernet 
(128 bit),
using my same card with a 13-character password, as per the above link, 
on os 10.3,
doing the mumbo jumbo at 
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106424
and other apple pages, this card will not connect me. the signal 
strength shows fine,
all the other users at this location are fine and dandy with their 
airport carded
macs and my mandatory 13 character password. when i unencrypted the 
base station
i can connect just fine, but this is not an option anymore, as for you 
also.

i spent a lot of time with wirelessdriver faq, docs and news list,
the apple site, very helpful by the way. 
http://www.apple.com/support/airport/ .
ran outta time, now i'm hard wired (alas).
i hope something here helps you.

despite my new problem, i wanna thank Rob McKeever and the others
for the development of wirelessdriver. THANKS!!


paul

On Nov 17, 2004, at 10:31 PM, 
wir...@li... wrote:

> 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