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Date:      Tue, 20 Nov 2001 05:59:45 -0800
From:      Nick Sayer <nsayer@quack.kfu.com>
To:        Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: prism2 128 bit wep keys?
Message-ID:  <3BFA61D1.6070605@quack.kfu.com>
References:  <200111192152.fAJLqe927719@medusa.kfu.com> <20011119181030.A9115@pir.net> <3BF99B35.9020604@kfu.com> <20011119222156.A59029@tp.databus.com>

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If I plug a Lucent Gold card into my laptop running FreeBSD with the 
access point configured with a 128 bit key, it works. If I plug the 
MA401 into my laptop running Windows 2000, that works. If I plug the 
MA401 into my laptop running FreeBSD, it doesn't work.

I've opened a PR for this (kern/32124).


Barney Wolff wrote:

> Are you quite sure the Linksys access point supports 128-bit keys?
> On mine, the box said yes but the documentation, what there was of
> it, seemed to say no.  I didn't look very hard but remember being
> rather annoyed.
> 
> On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 03:52:21PM -0800, Nick Sayer wrote:
> 
>>Peter Radcliffe wrote:
>>
>>
>>>nsayer@quack.kfu.com probably said:
>>>
>>>
>>>>I just obtained a Linksys 802.11b access point. I previously was
>>>>using an Apple Airport. 64 bit (40 bit, really) WEP keys work, but
>>>>128 bit (104 bit, really) keys don't with the wi driver using my
>>>>Netgear MA401.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>I'm not quite sure whether to blame the access point or the FreeBSD
>>>>driver.
>>>>
>>>>Has anyone seen 128 bit keys working on prism2 wi cards under FreeBSD?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>Not personally, I use lucent or cisco client cards, but one thing to
>>>note is that different company's text representations (passphrases) of
>>>keys do not agree. Whenever I have key problems the first thing I
>>>check is that the key is entered in hex at both ends.
>>>
>>>
>>You're quite right. But in this case it is indeed hex both places (I get 
>>my WEP keys from hexdump < /dev/random).
>>
>>
>>
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