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?
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