On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: > Well, either Apple added 128 bit encryption, or the linux driver > is incorrectly detecting the encryption key lenght. I don't really > know which one is the correct answer, but the fact is that recent > linux drivers say it's 128.
The Orinoco driver can't (or couldn't last I checked) even detect whether or not a Lucent card supported 128-bit versus 48/56/64-bit encryption (whatever it is, I am not sure) support on cards - my Orinoco Silvers show up in Linux (on an i386 system, using the orinoco_cs drivers) and supporting 128-bit keys, but I know they do not. > The firmware of the card in the base station (which is, afaik, a > standard pcmcia card from lucent) is updated by the firmware of > the base station. Well, I think it is... No, it's not. I've pulled a card out of an ABS while hacking it (actually hacked 20+ to have ventilation - heat issues), and even the most up-to-date base stations didn't upgrade the firmware on the WaveLAN/Orinoco card, it was still whatever it shipped with. > It's always good to make sure both match (your airport firmware > and the base station one). The AirPort cards use the same firmware as Orinoco/WaveLAN cards, so the 7.x firmware is probably your best bet. (If Apple has an updater that installs the 7.x Lucent firmware - I don't know if they do or not.) Derrik Pates | Sysadmin, Douglas School | #linuxOS on EFnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] | District (dsdk12.net) | #linuxOS on OPN
