Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 15:06:13 -0500 From: "Richard S. Conto" <rsc@merit.edu> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Cc: rsc@merit.edu Subject: Re: Getting wi and wicontrol under control Message-ID: <20020403200614.1B4665DDA0@segue.merit.edu> In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> of "Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:45:00 EST." <20020403194500.GD17454@pir.net>
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Then I must be having trouble configuring the thing. I thought I had wicontrol set up right, but (of course!) I didn't save what I'd done, and haven't tried recently. What was the firmware version of your card? I can't determine that right now, because I'm in the middle of rebuilding FreeBSD. (For the past week, a rebuilt O/S results in a panic during boot, and I'm wiping /usr/src and /usr/obj and re-cvsup'ing to get as clean a build as I can before complaining.) > originally from: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> > subject: Re: Getting wi and wicontrol under control > date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:45:00 -0500 > -------- >"Richard S. Conto" <rsc@merit.edu> probably said: >> When I tried to use a Lucent/Agere/Orinoco Gold 802.11b card with >> encryption turned on, it choked. I couldn't use 128 bit encryption, >> and when I tried 40 bit encryption, I got long delays and lots of >> retransmitted packets with a throughput of an ancient 300 baud/bps modem. > >> If you search around, you'll see some comments about how the >> interface to this card isn't published, except through some simple >> minded API (that the "wi" code was based on.) Someone has worked >> with Lucent/Orinoco/Agere to get encryption working, but hasn't been >> able to release it due to licensing issues. > >Uh, excuse me ? > >Some of us have been using 128bit encryption with Lucent gold cards, >freebsd and the wi driver for a couple of years. Your information is >vasly out of date and grossly incorrect. > >> I suspect you'll have to run without encryption. > >False. > >> The War-Drivers will love you. MAC address filtering won't help >> much. It's sort of like closing the door without locking it. (Not >> that 802.11b/WEP is all that secure anymore. > >WEP is useful as a first step, it should not be trusted as real >encryption. > >P. > >-- >pir pir-sig@pir.net pir-sig@net.tufts.edu > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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