Re: Problems hitting Airport Extreme Base Station with WEP

[Kiko Piris <debian@pirispons.net>]

On 04/08/2004 at 01:40 +0100, Rory Campbell-Lange wrote:

> I'm trying to connect to an Airport Extreme Base Station using WEP. I am
> trying to connect from an iBook rev2.2 using the old wireless card -- I
> can connect fine without WEP.

I had the same problem. Firmware downgrade solved it:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2004/01/msg00630.html

> Any ideas on how to extract the keys? I've tried using these keys, but I
> get errors (obviously, I suppose, since they are the wrong length...):

If you don't have MacOSX at hand, you can use these tools:

http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/#Configurator

However, I feel more comfortable touching the BS config with its
official admin utiliti (the MacOSX one).

-- 
Kiko