From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Oct 12 19:57:20 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 AC26F37B66D for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9D2vFH29012; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:57:15 -0700 Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:57:15 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Bob Ney Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interoperability Message-ID: <20001012195715.A28018@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3.0.6.32.20001012193618.00f84420@pop.quiknet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20001012193618.00f84420@pop.quiknet.com>; from bney@quiknet.com on Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:36:18PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 07:36:18PM -0700, Bob Ney wrote: > A general question for the list. I keep hearing that the Aironet is not yet > as good as the Wavelan cards. Why? What does Wavelan do better. Opinions, > speculations, rants and incantations are welcomed. 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. On the other hand, I really want them to work because I think they are better cards in the enterprise. The primary feature is the ability to set permanent keys which are write only which allows you to deploy a network with encryption keys without effectivly telling the whole world what they are. One of the Linux drivers totally destroys this feature which is really stupid IMNSHO. Also, my experience with the base Lucent base stations was not at all positive. I saw weird configuration problems and the interface sucked. I'm really happy with the Cisco base stations. Just add a static mapping for their MAC address to an IP in your DHCP server, plug them in, and configure them over a fairly nice web interface. I've got four of them running right now (this message is being typed with my laptop running FreeBSD-current with a WaveLAN card and a Cisco AP at home). -- 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