Re: [NTLK] WEP on the wireless drivers

From: John Skinner (john_at_johnskinner.net)
Date: Thu Sep 26 2002 - 01:20:06 PDT


Hello Andrew (and everyone else),

I had thought the same as you did but I got down to the answer!

"How do you upgrade the firmware for the WaveLAN Silver card to support
128bit?"...

Like was mentioned here before, you need to have Apple's AirPort 2.0.4
software installed on a Mac that a WaveLAN card can be inserted (any Mac
that can take an AirPort -OR- PCMCIA PC card).

Then you just put the card in it, turn on the Mac and the card's firmware is
updated! There is no process that you have to select.

I tested this on a PC laptop using the "Orinoco" drivers for windows. Using
this software you can view the firmware version of the card. I put each of
the three WaveLAN Silver cards I had into the PC laptop to check their
firmware version. 2 had version 8.20, and one had 8.40. After I inserted all
cards into my G4 (and did the above), then put them back into the PC laptop,
all of them had firmware version 8.40!

P.S. I started this thread a while back, but I still can't get the WEP
encryption to work from the Newton.

Anyone else that has it working, could you please decribe which settings in
the Newton 802.11 driver prefs you used (i.e. Hexadecim or string, AirPort
Base Station version, other access point, WEP key length in characters.)

On 9/26/02 2:19 AM, "andrew_at_misf67.cern.ch" <andrew_at_misf67.cern.ch> wrote:
>>> I have updated to Airport 2.0.4, and I do not have the impression that the
>>> firmware of my Lucent card was updated. It did update the firmware of the
>>> (Snow) basestation though. I explicitly
>>
>> Isn't there a later version?
>> ------------------>
>
>
> As far as I can see, no. But that is beyond the point. My point is, could
> some kind soul please explain me in detail what exactly has to be done to
> upgade a Lucent Wavelan silver from WEP with a 40 bit encryption to a 128
> bit encryption scheme by upgading the firmware.
>
>
> What I have understood is that it somehow has to do with the Aiport
> software, but I have not understood how it acutally performed. What (in
> exact steps please) do I have to do to perform this magic.

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