DWL-650 and apple airport - WEP compatible?

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Aug 03, 2001 at 07:46:07AM +1000, Brad Hards wrote:
> G'day team,
> 
> I'm having hassles with using my DWL-650 (using orinoco_cs 0.06 from
> 2.4.6-ac2) and an apple airport (with the java Airport Configurator).
> 
> It is great with an open link. I just have problems when I try to turn on WEP.
> Both the airport and the card seem to accept the keys, and the link works with
> just the airport with keys (with ExcludeUnecrypted turned off, of course).
> However as soon as I put keys on the card, I can no longer communicate - it
> just times out (pings don't return, etc). This happens with open or restricted
> on the card.
> 
> I have to put some more work into this, but can anyone confirm whether this is
> doable, and if I need new firmware in the card, a pointer (to TFM, if
> appropriate) would be greatly appreciated.

As far as I know we haven't been able to get WEP working at all on the
Prism II cards (such as the D-Link) :-(

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