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Linksys 802.11b
Authored by: copelanduk on Dec 03, '02 06:10:16PM

I've got a Linksys WAP11 v2.2 (Firmware 1.01c) at home and back in 10.1.x I had to do the $[128bit ASCII key] route but when 10.2 rolled around it added those nice options for hex / ascii or airport passwords when using the airport menu item.

I keep my 'Home' location set to most recently used (remember password box checked) so I hadn't really noticed that the specific network option in the network prefs pane hasn't been updated to easily handle non-airport wep keys. When I am roaming I have a different location with best signal in the airport pane. So I'd recommend just setting it to recently used and then using the menu item to select your network once and enter the password (also store it on the keychain) and that way you should have pretty seamless access. The only problem would be if you had several basestations available from your computer and you somehow switched from the desired network but this shouldn't really happen.

Oh and...

wep is insecure. It takes relatively few packets to break wep, but I would still turn it on unless you're offering free access. A few weeks ago I opened my ibook and drove around my block and found 12 wireless networks (bear in mind I didn't drive particularly slowly, I didn't use an external antenna and I just had the laptop on the back seat so the doors may have interfered) and only 2 had wep enabled. I didn't detect my ssid which is 14 floors up in the air but the moral of the story is if I wanted to break into a network I'd choose one without wep, and probably one of the six that still had linksys as the ssid.

Speaking of ssid, my linksys has the option to hide the ssid, but that used to give an automatic kernel panic in 10.1.x (the only time I've seen one since 10.0). Eventually I just stopped trying to hide the ssid, has anyone tried this in 10.2.x?



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Linksys 802.11b
Authored by: slsman on Dec 05, '02 11:03:01AM

In Jaguar I was finally able to disable the SSID broadcast from Linksys WAP 11. This had failed with earlier versions of OSX. In the Network system pref, I select "Join most recently used available network" and "remember network password"



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Linksys 802.11b
Authored by: dafuser on Dec 24, '02 01:06:58AM

I have turned off the SSID broadcast on my WAP11 (firmware 1.4i.1) without any problems. I'm running 10.2.3 on a 1Ghz G4 Powerbook. I did have to configure my Airport card to connect to a specific SSID. I had it configured to connect to the strongest signal, and it wouldn't connect to the WAP11 once I turned off the SSID broadcast.

When running MacStumbler on the PowerBook, or NetStumbler on my IBM T23 my WAP11 doesn't show up. I suppose you could find it with a RF sniffer, but the average guy doesn't keep one of those in his back pocket.



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