Re: Airport and WEP

[Kiko Piris <debian@pirispons.net>]

On 19/01/2004 at 14:17, Arnaud FONTAINE wrote:

> I've recently installed an Airport Extreme access point in my network; and an
> Aiport card (NOT the extreme one) in my iBook(first generation) with Debian
> testing/unstable with a 2.6.1 kernel. Everything works fine if I do NOT use WEP,
> as you can see:
[...]
> If I enable WEP encryption (with a valid 26 hex digits key), I do not obtain the
> network connection on my iBook, although it works fine with OS X.
[...]
> Does someone know where it can come from ? 

I've had *exactly* this same problem. I've tied the following
combinations:

 wep enabled | ap.3com | ap.apple |
-------------+---------+----------+
ibm/linux    |   ok    |  NOT OK  |
-------------+---------+----------+
ibook/linux  |   ok    |  NOT OK  |
-------------+---------+----------+
ibm/win2k    |   ok    |    ok    |
-------------+---------+----------+
ibook/macosx |   ok    |    ok    |
-------------+---------+----------+

where:

ibm      : is an ibm thinkpad (with linux and win2k) with a 3com
           atmelwlan driven pcmcia card
ap.3com  : is a 3com access point
ap.apple : is the airport extreme base station

Without wep, everything works fine.

I did these combination tests a couple of months ago (with 2.4).

So I concluded is some sort of problem between linux (both my thinkpad
and ibook) and _my_ apple basestation.

Past weekend I retried 2.6.1-ben1 against my apple basestation with web
enabled, did not work.

-- 
Kiko

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