Re: 128 bits ? (was: Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station)

2001-10-07 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> 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 the

Re: 128 bits ? (was: Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station)

2001-10-06 Thread Derrik Pates
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 d

Re: 128 bits ? (was: Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station)

2001-10-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>There has been some information about Apple silently moving its new >Airport cards to 128-bit encryption. Anybody with more detail about >that? Can we get that under Linux? How about the Airport base station? Well, either Apple added 128 bit encryption, or the linux driver is incorrectly detectin

128 bits ? (was: Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station)

2001-10-06 Thread Michel Lanners
On 6 Oct, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: >>> I suggest you but up under os9 and configure the base station, under >>> the network tab you should see some DHCP parameters. >> >>No need to boot proprietary OSs for that, there is a nice Java >>configurator which

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-06 Thread Michel Lanners
On 5 Oct, this message from Colin Walters echoed through cyberspace: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Well, the proprietary OS has the nice side effect of beeing able to >> update both your card and the base station to their latest firmware >> ;) > > Do you know if ther

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-06 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Sat, 2001-10-06 at 02:14, Colin Walters wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Well, the proprietary OS has the nice side effect of beeing able to > > update both your card and the base station to their latest firmware > > ;) You can upgrade the base station firmware

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-06 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>Do you know if there are any fixes in this firmware that are necessary >for a TiBook? I don't have MacOS, so I was looking into getting the >Cisco base station, but unfortunately it costs a lot more than the >Apple base station. If the Apple one is usable without MacOS, then it >would be a viabl

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-06 Thread Colin Walters
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, the proprietary OS has the nice side effect of beeing able to > update both your card and the base station to their latest firmware > ;) Do you know if there are any fixes in this firmware that are necessary for a TiBook? I don't have Ma

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-05 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
>> I suggest you but up under os9 and configure the base station, under >> the network tab you should see some DHCP parameters. > >No need to boot proprietary OSs for that, there is a nice Java >configurator which I could put up somewhere in case anyone doesn't find >it on Google. Well, the propri

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-05 Thread Michel Dänzer
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 17:32, Nico Kist wrote: > I suggest you but up under os9 and configure the base station, under > the network tab you should see some DHCP parameters. No need to boot proprietary OSs for that, there is a nice Java configurator which I could put up somewhere in case anyone doe

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-05 Thread Nico Kist
Hello I suggest you but up under os9 and configure the base station, under the network tab you should see some DHCP parameters. Nico Kist

Re: Trouble getting airport to talk to UFO base station

2001-10-05 Thread Derrik Pates
On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, Brendan Simon wrote: > I've got a Titanium Powerbook with airport card installed and an airport > base station but I'm having trouble getting them to talk. > eth1 IEEE 802.11-DS ESSID:"bren-wlan" Nickname:"HERMES I" > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422GHz Access Point: