Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>]

On Friday,  1 March 2002 at  9:59:07 -0500, Dan Harnett wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 13:25:14 +0800 (HKT)
> Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com> wrote:
>>
>> I just test the WEP option of wicontrol between openbsd-3.0 and
>> openbsd-current.  The two system are both i386 and similar cannot
>> communicate when the WEP is on.  I had tested that win98 and OpenBSD-3.0
>> can communicate with each other even the WEP is on.  Is there a problem of
>> openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current when WEP is on ?  Here is my wicontrol
>> output of openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current. Any idea ?  Thanks.
>
> Is there any problem when WEP is off?
>
>> ======= OpenBSD-3.0 ==========
> [...]
>> Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
> [...]
>> ======== openbsd-current ===========
> [...]
>> Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):		[ 1 ]
> [...]
>
> Do you have a base station?  If not, you need to set the port type to 3.

There are two ways of running without a base station.  You can use
"demo ad hoc" mode (port type 3), but this is a non-standard method
and limits the kinds of cards you can talk to.  The other is IBSS
mode, where one of the cards simulates a base station.  This
interoperates better, both with other cards and other systems.  To set
this, keep port 1, but on the machine you want to simulate the bas
station, set the "create IBSS" bit (wicontrol -c 1).

As we've seen, that's not the issue here, however.

Greg
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