Re: Getting wi and wicontrol under control

Then I must be having trouble configuring the thing.
I thought I had wicontrol set up right, but (of course!)
I didn't save what I'd done, and haven't tried recently.

What was the firmware version of your card? I can't determine
that right now, because I'm in the middle of rebuilding
FreeBSD. (For the past week, a rebuilt O/S results in a
panic during boot, and I'm wiping /usr/src and /usr/obj
and re-cvsup'ing to get as clean a build as I can before
complaining.)

> originally from: Peter Radcliffe <[email protected]>
> subject: Re: Getting wi and wicontrol under control
> date: Wed, 03 Apr 2002 14:45:00 -0500
> --------
>"Richard S. Conto" <[email protected]> probably said:
>> When I tried to use a Lucent/Agere/Orinoco Gold 802.11b card with
>> encryption turned on, it choked.  I couldn't use 128 bit encryption,
>> and when I tried 40 bit encryption, I got long delays and lots of
>> retransmitted packets with a throughput of an ancient 300 baud/bps modem.
>
>> If you search around, you'll see some comments about how the
>> interface to this card isn't published, except through some simple
>> minded API (that the "wi" code was based on.)  Someone has worked
>> with Lucent/Orinoco/Agere to get encryption working, but hasn't been
>> able to release it due to licensing issues.
>
>Uh, excuse me ?
>
>Some of us have been using 128bit encryption with Lucent gold cards,
>freebsd and the wi driver for a couple of years. Your information is
>vasly out of date and grossly incorrect.
>
>> I suspect you'll have to run without encryption. 
>
>False.
>
>> The War-Drivers will love you.  MAC address filtering won't help
>> much. It's sort of like closing the door without locking it. (Not
>> that 802.11b/WEP is all that secure anymore.
>
>WEP is useful as a first step, it should not be trusted as real
>encryption.
>
>P.
>
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