From: "Carl Gehr" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (account carl.gehr@mcgcg.com HELO localhost) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTPA id 2312286 for os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com; Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:04:44 -0500 To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2009 12:04:31 -0500 (EST) Reply-To: "Carl Gehr" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 2.20.2382 for OS/2 Warp 4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] [OS2Wireless]TPad T60 Connect to Linksys BEFW11S4 - Security Settings Message-ID: Well, good news and bad news... Good News: 1) I found the 1.52.02 firmware and applied it. Seems I had it downloaded, but never installed it, I guess. 2) I can configure WEP128 and, after a few attempts to get the router and xWLAN to generate the same keys, I gave up and forced the router generated key into the xWLAN configuration. 3) My current connection is now WEP128 and seems OK. BUT, I'd still like to get WPA-TKIP to work... Bad News: 1) No matter what I do, I've not been able to get this to work. 2) The WPA Supplicant displays and just keeps looping through the same bunch of [to me] gibberish. I did change the 'Debug Level' to 'verbose' and I captured what appears to be a repeating bunch of lines. But, not knowing what all of the stuff means, I'm a bit hesitant to just post it here in a rather public forum. If there is someone out there who can interpret the stuff [It's only about 22 lines.], I can send it off-list as a text file. I guess I'm curious: Is there no standard 'generate' tool that will create compatible keys? I also find it interesting that xWLAN generates four keys, while the router only has one. I assume other routers have more keys? So, one step forward... Carl On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:14:31 -0500 (EST), Carl Gehr wrote: >Hmmm... I thought I had the latest firmware. I'll have to go >look at it... >[Short delay...] >OK... I have 1.50.14, May 27 2004 > >I'll go get the latest update and try again. > >Thanks, >Carl > >On Wed, 11 Feb 2009 17:08:42 -0700, Chuck McKinnis wrote: > >>What is your firmware level? 1.52.02 is the latest from >>http://www.linksysbycisco.com/US/en/support/BEFW11S4/download >> >>You should be able to set it up with WPA and TKIP. It does not appear >>that it will ever support the WPA2 and AES encryption which all up to >>date routers do. >> >>It appears that XWLAN supports on TKIP for WPA and AES for WPA2. >> >>Carl Gehr wrote: >>> I have been running this Router/AP: >>> BEFW11S4 V4 >>> for a long time with only WEP64. [Just have not had time to deal with >>> changing it.] >>> >>> I would now like to update the connections to use the highest security >>> available, but it appears that the router only supports: >>> WPA (with TKIP, but not with AES) >>> I'm not really sure exactly what this really means, but at this point, >>> my objective is to get it to work with the T60 reported by PCI as: >>> Device 4227h PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection >>> >>> It has been working just fine with GenMac and WLAN V3.10rc2 setup for >>> WEP64. >>> >>> No matter how I try to change the configurations, both the router and >>> the WLAN, it does not want to make the connection. WLAN does see the >>> network/router if I request a scan for public hotspots, showing as it >>> should as "Private". >>> >>> One significant problem, resolved [I thought] via manual cut/paste: >>> ==> Both the Router and WLAN will generate a key from a >>> passphrase. But, they generate DIFFERENT KEYS! >>> - WLAN generated four keys, but none of them match >>> the key generated by the router. >>> - My attempt to circumvent the problem was to cut/paste >>> from the router to Key-1 of the WLAN field. >>> Made no difference. Still no connection. >>> >>> I tried essentially the same process, but tried to use WEP128. Similar >>> results there. No connection even though the Router/AP appears to be >>> 'seen' by the TPad. >>> >>> Anyone have this working? Any suggestions about steps to make WLAN and >>> the AP get together?