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Whatcho mean WEP doesn't work?
Authored by: perdedor on Aug 20, '02 11:36:06AM
It work 100% with not one, not two, but three Orinoco Silver Cards (you know, the ones apple rips the pcmcia out of, relabels as Airport, and then sells you for $100), an Orinoco Gold (what Airports w/Airport 2.0.2 updates applied are since it flashes the firmware of 1st Generation Airport cards from 48bit WEP to support 128bit WEP) and one last card... a linksys wpc11 pcmcia card.



This is with and without WEP to a Linksys BEFW11S4 (v1) base station, a Linksys WAP11 (both original and v2.2), Airport Base Stations (snow and graphite), SMC Barricade, a 3com AP, and an old p150 openbsd base station I built myself amongst several other APs I've connected with other the past year using this driver.



You'll also get support for Orinoco's HERMES chipset in the driver in addition to Prism II, something apple continues to leave out of X though it's in the 9.x version of airport, but having a single unified driver for all the various cards truely puts this driver way ahead of every other 80211b driver on every other architecture / os / platform PERIOD 1 Driver that truely does it all.



and yes, every driver for 10.2 needs to be recompiled because of the switch to gcc-3.1 and it's new ABI. Don't go and even try to blame apple for that, they started giving it out with the April 2002 dev tools, so in theory you could just d/l the source and recompile yourself.


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