Re: 802.11 with best Apple compatibility?

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 03:10:48PM -0400, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2001 at 10:15:48AM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > Unless Apple is mangling the firmware or someone screwed up the driver,
> > this is false.  Gold Lucent cards are capable of 40-bit crypto.
> 
> How do you set this?  I have been unable to set a 40 bit key, or
> set a card into '40 bit mode' with the Orinoco Windows 98 drivers,
> the FreeBSD drivers, or the Apple airport software.  If this works
> it could solve a lot of problems for me.

In FreeBSD all you do is:

ifconfig wi0 wepkey <40-bit key>

The same should work in windows though I haven't used the windows driver
in months so I don't remember what the dialog looks like.

-- Brooks

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