Jason, I had a similar problem with my Orinoco client and WAP11 with WEP enabled... the fix for me was to downgrade my Orinoco drivers to one version back. (or fix the data rate in the WAP11 to be 1-2Mbps)
there is apparently some problem with the way the new Orinoco drivers fragment packets in 11Mbps mode... try the following URL - http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,3409860~root=equip,16~mode=flat Arnold -----Original Message----- From: Jason Wood [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 4:31 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: 'Lawrence Anthony Frelot' Subject: [BAWUG] RE: WAP 11 v2.2 / Orinoco Gold Card / XP w/ WEP Bug? (Jason Wood) Lawrence, Thanks for you reply. When initially setting the card up I did experience the problem you are describing. Apparently the algorithm that Linksys uses to generate hex keys from passphases differs from XP's algorithm. When initially setting up WEP I did copy the keys into XP in hex format. Unfortunately that is not the problem I am currently experiencing. I am able to get the wireless link to work using WEP. But I am able to visit some sites and not others. I cleared IE's cache and tried to visit pages that I have never visited before, so I know I am not getting cached versions. The problem seems to have something to do with the content of the site. In particular I seem to have difficulty visiting sites that use ASP or that perform database searches, such as nextag.com. I know this seems bizarre. The wireless link should be data agnostic. But these pages work fine on the same computer using a 10Base-T connection. I know the keys match because I verified them and it works with some sites. I am also having a problem using a Cisco VPN on my work laptop, a Dell running Win2k. Once again it works fine with WEP disabled, but with WEP enabled the VPN is not able to connect. The only thing that I can think of that I have not tried is using a key in the WAP11 other than the first one and using a key index in XP other than 0. I have tried both 64-bit and 128-bit WEP with the same results. If I am unable to solve this problem in a week or so I'm going to send the WAP11 back and get an Orinoco AP-200. I'm somewhat disappointed, I liked the WAP11 because it can do wireless bridging and has removable antennae. Does anyone else have any other suggestions? Thanks, Jason -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Anthony Frelot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 04:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jason Wood Subject: Re:WAP 11 v2.2 / Orinoco Gold Card / XP w/ WEP Bug? (Jason Wood) I had this problem too a few times. I have the same setup but with a Cisco 350 card. If you enter a ASCII passphrase into the configuration utility (at least mine does this) for the card and enter the same one into XP configuration area, somehow the keys that are generated do not turn out the same. I don't know why you are able to go to ibm.com's page but I'm guessing that it is cached in your browser so you may think it is accessing that site but in fact it resides locally on your laptop. Here is what I did: Enter your ASCII phrase into the WAP11 and write down the HEX that is generated. Copy that same HEX key into XP. This should guarantee that the keys are the same. Hope this helps. Lawrence > Message: 3 > Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 19:19:52 -0700 (PDT) > From: Jason Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [BAWUG] WAP 11 v2.2 / Orinoco Gold Card / > XP w/ WEP Bug? > > Hello all, > > My new WLAN setup is: > > WAP11 v2.2 > Orinoco Gold PC Card w/ firmware updated to v8.1 > Dell Laptop running XP > > This set up works great without WEP enabled. But > when > I enable WEP, I am able to visit some sites, such as > ibm.com, but not others, such as dell.com. If I > then > turn WEP off then every works fine again. It > appears > packets are transfered between the AP and the PC > Card, > but IE times out and does not display the web page. > > I've been searching the web for a solution to this > problem. I noticed that another user posted a > message > about a similar problem on this board in May. Does > anyone have any insight into this problem? > > Thanks, > > Jason > > ===== ____________________________________________________________ Lawrence A. Frelot E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Health - Feel better, live better http://health.yahoo.com -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
