Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com>]

On Sun, 3 Mar 2002, Greg Lehey wrote:

> 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

The sequence of the wicontrol I try to setup for my system (i386 as base
station) is as followings:-

1. wicontrol wi0 -n private_network
2. wicontrol wi0 -p 1
3. wicontrol wi0 -c 1
4. wicontrol wi0 -s private_base

I found out that there is no probem under openbsd-current to 
openbsd-current machines but not for openbsd-3.0 to openbsd-current
machines when the WEP is on and the command of wicontrol I used to setup
WEP are 

a. wicontrol -e 1
b. wicontrol -k "key1" -v 1

For win98 machine and openbsd-3.0, it works ok when WEP is on.  That make
me think that there may something missing or there is a problem for
openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current to communicate when WEP is on.

Clarence

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