Re: More hostap weirdness

I went to the Netgear site today and they *finally* have a ROM upgrade 
and driver update that does the Windows XP 802.11b "thing" and now it 
works perfectly with the host AP support in -stable.


Nick Sayer wrote:
> The AP is a Netgear MA401 in a Netgear MA301 in an ordinary machine 
> running FreeBSD 4.6.
> 
> Machine A is a Dell laptop running Windows XP with a Dell-badged 
> Orinocco gold card.
> 
> Machine B is a Sony Vaio laptop running XP or FreeBSD 4.6 (dual-boot) 
> with another Netgear MA401.
> 
> Machine A always works correctly.
> 
> Machine B works correctly when running FreeBSD 4.6, but when it's 
> running XP with the MA401 driver (which, perversely enough does not do 
> the "new" Windows XP 802.11b thing), it only works correctly with WEP 
> disabled.
> 
> It *used* to work ok with a "real" access point (a Linksys), and it 
> works fine under FreeBSD, but there's something that is keeping the 
> Netgear Windows driver from negotiating any sort of WEP (64 or 128 bit) 
> with a hostap mode.
> 
> For what it's worth, I tried applying the most recent -current diffs. No 
> help.
> 
> The configurator help>about lists the config utility as 4.06.4.7 (jan 
> 12, 2001), the driver at 0.29.4 (Apr 3, 2001), and the NIC firmware as 
> 00.08.03.00 (ID:S10008C3). I can't find anything on their web site any 
> newer than this.
> 
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