Re: AirPort Extreme version 3.1 & compatibility

On Tuesday, Jul 1, 2003, at 02:24 Europe/Madrid, Cliff Skolnick wrote:

> In addition to letting you just plug in a broadcom card and be off an 
> running, v3.1 seems to have broken interoperability with hostap mode 
> in 4.x and broadcom clients (including apple's own airport extreme).  
> 5.1-current seems to be fine.
>
> I've just spent 2 weeks at apple wwdc helping with the build out of 
> the wifi for the conference and met many of the folks at apple doing 
> wifi stuff.  I'm going to dump a box with a freebsd based ap software 
> (surf and sip) and was wondering if anyone else wanted to get me an 
> image of there AP.  This box will likely live at apple and be tested 
> against for future driver releases so this is a good opportunity.

	It seems that now Apple is doing shared authentication instead of open 
when enabling WEP. If I enable WEP in my Airport Extreme base stations, 
FreeBSD 4.8 cannot associate. I am going to try with -CURRENT one of 
these days.




	Borja.

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