New Data:
upon further troubleshooting, if I have a key set in iwconfig on the laptop, and I have wep turned off on the AP, it still works, this would mean that the laptop is not encrypting anything right? I mean given the key, the laptop should then be encrypting and the AP wouldn't know what to do with a seemingly mindless stream of data right? so it would just discard it, or maybe throw it out to the network, but I certainly shouldn't be able to write (well, write it, sure, but not send it is my point) this email on my laptop with WEP enabled, and WEP disabled on the AP, (at least that would make sense to me eh?) So what's the trick? Why isn't my laptop doing WEP properly?
Tom
From: "Christensen Tom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: linksys wpc11 + wep
Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2003 12:57:15 +0000
I have a linksys wpc11 pcmcia card in my laptop (redhat 8.0 all the latest updates)
using the intersil prism2 driver it works fine as long as I don't try to turn on wep,
with WEP enabled on the access point (a linksys wap11) I can no longer connect to anything, I have tried with both 128 and 64 bit encryption, I have checked the keys 4 and 5 times, tried changing the keys, nothing works.. using this same card in windows it works fine with wep turned on, and my powerbook and ibook both with airport cards work just fine also with this setup so I'm pretty sure its not the AP, but possibly the prism driver?? Does it not know how to properly encrypt the data its sending? Did the driver developers develop straight to the WEP standard, and linksys not use the standard quite so strictly (of course this wouldn't explain apple's hardware/software being able to work flawlessly would it)? Is this a known issue? I don't want to leave my ap open, (not that wep is any great security, but it's better than nothing!!), let me know.
Tom
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