Brooks Davis wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:30:37AM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:02:03PM +0100, Rasputin wrote:
> > > Is there any difference between Gold and Silver cards from
> > > a compatibility standpoint (with the usual Apple Airport cards)?
> >
> > With WEP encryption turned off they both work together fine. I've
> > seen many used in mixed enviornments. With WEP turned on, they
> > are completely incomptable. The silver cards do a 40 bit encryption,
> > and the gold cards do a 128 bit encryption, and it seems the gold
> > cards can't be stepped back to 40 bit.
>
> Unless Apple is mangling the firmware or someone screwed up the driver,
> this is false. Gold Lucent cards are capable of 40-bit crypto.
Aren't the airport cards just plain old Silver Lucent cards? If so,
then
either the Gold or the Silver should work fine.
In fact I know the silver works fine because I have an Airport at home
that
I talk to with a Silver card. There's a FreeBSD port that lets you
configure the box from your machine. In Windowsland there's a program
called FreeBase, and of course the Airport comes with Mac tools bundled.
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