[geeks] access point questions

[Thomas Gallaway]

Virtually the bronze card means it has no WEP. The silver card
has 56bit WEP and the gold one has 128bit WEP. You actually
can flash your to be a 128bit WEP card but I did that like 2 years
ago and dont really remember where I got the flash from.
Now to your problem this is odd. The airport card should work
together with your lucent/avaya cards. I know that the apple airport
access point actually has a avaya/lucent orinocco gold card in it.

So my guess is either you got WEP turned on and not set it up
on all your cards or you just dont have the correct SSID set.
You have an access point right? Then you need infrastructure
mode with the correct SSID but if you cant talk to the network
that kinda sounds like an WEP issue to me.

Cja,
       Thomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Schiller" <schiller at agrijag.com>
To: "The Geeks List" <geeks at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:31 AM
Subject: [geeks] access point questions


> While on the subject of access points, I have a question.
> 
> A while back I got a wavelan card for my tadpole, it turns out to be 
> the external antenna module for a Wavepoint II access point. I manage 
> to get the tadpole to recognise it, can ifconfig it, etc. at this point 
> I decide to try and get it going, so I find a WavepointII access point, 
> and I buy another wavelan card that's not the EAM (the 'antenna' 
> portion looks very similiar to module on the EAM, but in a plastic box, 
> not a metal one). No go. couldn't get the ap to recognise the tadpole. 
> While this was going on, I also got a wavelan bronze card (actually 
> before I got the proper wavelan card for the tadpole). I basically give 
> up, figuring that the tadpole's drivers must be flaky, or something.
> 
> Now I have an iMac, and I added an airport card into it, figuring that 
> I could be able to talk to the wavepoint with it, and the bronze card. 
> Well, I get the same results as I got with the tadpole, nothing! So my 
> first question is: Is the airport card compatible with the bronze card, 
> or does it have to be the silver or gold cards? If the bronze card IS 
> compatible with the airport card, how can I tell which piece of 
> equipment isn't working? I'm tending to think the Wavepoint isn't 
> working, as I had no success with either computer I tried to talk to it 
> with. I liked the idea of the wavepoint, as it can take 2 cards, so I 
> can (supposedly) put an older wavelan card in it, and a newer one, so 
> my tadpole, and imac could both use the same ap.
> 
> Any suggestions would be helpful.
> 
> 
> -Mike
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