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   james hal-pc.org" <"james to All   
   strange wireless problems   
   12 Aug 04 11:15:14   
   
   using BeOS "Wind" (BeOS 5PE based)   
   i've installed the hfa384x_cs driver and wireless add-on for the   
   boneyard. configured pcmcia with the settings for my card and it finds   
   it (Siemens ss1021 prism 2.5) but i cannot connect to my AP.   
      
   i have 64bit WEP and MAC filtering on my FreeBSD gateway/AP/etc/etc box   
   and can connect fine from this laptop with the same card using FreeBSD   
   and Slackware.   
      
   in the Boneyard i set the wireless to BSS, enabled 64bit WEP in the   
   wireless tab in the boneyard,  enter my key, apply changes, and see the   
   light on my card go solid showing that it's associated.   
      
   i then look on my FreeBSD box (wicontrol -l) and it shows the MAC of my   
   wireless card and shows it to be associated but shows a 0 signal   
   strength.  I was sitting right next to my 6db directional antenna!   
      
   if i turn off WEP on my AP (ifconfig wi0 -wep) i see that the wireless   
   card on my laptop looses it's connection.  if i disable WEP in the   
   boneyard it still won't associate.   
   this is quite odd that FreeBSD and Slackware on other partitions on this   
   machine can connect with and without WEP when configured this way.  has   
   anyone else had any luck using WEP, or wireless in general, with BeOS?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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