[MLB-WIRELESS] Minitar WEP Problem - Please Help!

[Rob Clark]

Let me add this:

1) MAC Address re-write 'bug' in Minitar MNWAPB.
This bug (or more correctly: strict adherence to the standard) is no
longer a problem. Just this weekend I reconfigured 3 MNWAPB that are
part of the WA Freenet so that conections like the one below work
perfectly:

[PC]---[AP]......[MNWAPB/client]-----[Router]-----[Internet]

With V2.53 firmware in the MNWAPB/client, the PC can now 'see' the
internet. The trick is that V2.53 allows the MNWAPB to use a MAC address
that you specify. So you specify the MAC address of the router. Problem
Solvered!

2) MNWAPB/SVEC compatibility.
I have not explicitly checked WAP compatibility, but I can confirm a
MNWAPB/client connects easily to an SVEC-FD1811-A/AP with WEP off. Did
it this weekend.

With WEP, different manufacturers use different formats (sometimes) for
the way you need to enter WEP keys. Some expect you to enter WEP keys in

- HEX
- ASCII
- ???

The WEP problem may be an issue with the way the manufactures want you
to enter the (same) keys. Just a thought.

Rob Clark


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au] On Behalf Of Adam H.
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 7:12 AM
To: Nick Grundy
Cc: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Minitar WEP Problem - Please Help!


Hi Nick,

Thanks for your letter, however, this concerns me even more.

According to Freenet Antenna's, their is a problem with SVEC units 
connecting to a Minitar, if the SVEC unit is the client, and the Minitar
is 
the AP.

Howver, they don't seem to have a problem with Minitar's (Model MNWAPB) 
running as the client, connecting to SVEC access points.

And I don't have a problem either - until I turn WEP on. Then,
connection 
doesn't happen. I have tried this while connecting to different SVEC
units, 
with the same problem each time.

To tell you the truth, I was hoping that this was a common problem, and 
someone was going to say 'Oh - that's coz you're running the default 
firmware, and you need to upgrade to this', or something like that.

I really don't want to hear that I've bought these minitars, and they're

useless to me.  :-(

Is the dlink DWL-810 the best replacement unit for the SVEC's
(considering 
that it would need to connect to SVEC's in client mode).

Thanks & Regards

Adam.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nick Grundy" <ngrundy at isoproplex.net>
To: <adamsmail at jvxp.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 12:06 AM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Minitar WEP Problem - Please Help!


> Hi,
>
> Well for a start Minitar are bad-new(tm) in client mode, they re-write

> mac
> addresses
> and make getting to anything past the ethernet side an utter bastard.
>
> I know one guy here did get a minitar connected to a svec at one 
> point,
> but it took
> hours, and a hammer, i think.
>
> It would be easier to throw the towel in, make the minitar an AP and 
> get
> something like
> a dlink 810 ethernet bridge.
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm trying to connect a Minitar in station-infrastructrue mode to a 
>> SVEC
>> access point, that has WEP enabled.
>>
>> Every time we try, we get "Connection Failed" on the minitar. (That's

>> by
>> using the "Select Site Survey" option under Wireless Settings).
>>
>> We can connect to the SVEC access point, if we turn WEP off on both
>> devices, but if we enable WEP, it doesn't work!
>>
>> Can someone please help! This is really causing us some problems.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards
>>
>> Adam Hair
> ~Nick
> -----
> Every cloud has a silver lining (except for the mushroom shaped ones,
> which have a lining of Iridium & Strontium 90)
>
> 


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