From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Oct 13 9:59:25 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BE837B66E for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:59:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9DGxGR30281; Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:59:16 -0700 Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 09:59:16 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: Brooks Davis , Bob Ney , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interoperability Message-ID: <20001013095916.A28198@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20001012195715.A28018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200010131618.JAA97379@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200010131618.JAA97379@whistle.com>; from ambrisko@whistle.com on Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:18:06AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:18:06AM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Brooks Davis writes: > | So far, I haven't been able to get an Aironet card to connect to an > | access point running with all the security options enabled even with > | the encryption patches. I'm not convinced that it should work with > | them since they are missing the ability to set the transmit key which > | is required for things to work. Without that functionality, they aren't > | going to work on FreeBSD on a network my company security officer will > | let me deploy. > > Huh? How is the "transmit key" different from the WEP key???? > ancontrol -i iface [-v 0|1|2|3|4|5|6|7] -k key (set key) > Note the even number are permanent and the odd are > temporary. I let you set four keys. The permanent > key are permanent until you re-write them. You can set any of the eight WEP keys, but you must also select the one you will actually use as the transmit key. See the -T option to wicontrol. This is something you can do with the windows key manager. > The other things needed are: > ancontrol -i iface -K 0|1|2|4 (set auth type 2=shared secret) > I just found out the option 4 isn't real and you > can do 3 as well. > ancontrol -i iface -W 0|1 (enable WEP) > I just found out 2 is an option as well (with my > old version you can set 2 it just won't tell you the > difference). > Their programming doc. needs some help. > > I've set keys and WEP between 3 Aironet cards. One, my wife's running > Windows the other 2 only with the FreeBSD driver. I don't have time right > now to do testing with an access point since I won't be at work next week. I'll do some more debugging today. I'll try and figure out exactly which AP options are breaking things. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message