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From: "Lewis G Rosenthal" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com> Full Headers
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Subject: Re: [OS2Wireless] Terminology
Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2007 01:23:46 -0500
To: "OS/2 Wireless Users Mailing List" <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>

Hi, Julian...

On 12/26/07 05:54 pm, Julian Thomas thus wrote :
I replaced my wired router along with a WAP with a linksys WRT54GL. It's
all working so far, except that I can't get encryption to work on my T60
laptop.

Linksys offers WPA Personal and WPA2 Personal, each with AES or TKIP.

XWLan offers WPA PSK or WPA2PSK.

>From earlier experiments with Windows, I believe that the MAC (Intel
3945ABG) only does WPA - not WPA2.

However, I have been unable to get a winning combination.

Another aggravation is that Access Connections [Fn-F5] tells me that the
wireless is off, and clicking to turn it on doesn't change anything.
Wireless does work if I leave it on in eCS and then boot to windows.
 
  
I don't recall whether the T60 has a hardware switch for the Wi-Fi. Check to make sure that it is on (look toward the front of the machine, under the lip).

The 3945 does indeed do WPA and WPA2. My experience, however, has shown that you will have the best luck using WPA2 Personal (or PSK) Mixed on the router with TKIP+AES (this allows either or both options to be used). If you don;t have the option of "mixed" (see below), then opt for WPA.

If you have difficulty with the LinkSys firmware, then I would suggest flashing to DD-WRT 2.3 or 2.4 (the latter has some nice features, but is still in beta, so if you find some oddities with it, you might want to drop back to the latest 2.3). Use the standard generic build on the GL; it works quite well.

I just took a look at a client's WRT54G v4 running DD-WRT 2.3 SP2. My settings there are:

WPA2 Pre-Shared Key Mixed
TKIP+AES
(non-dictionary, loooonnnngggg PSK)
Key renewal interval (in seconds): 3600

In XWLAN, I have the profile for that client configured as follows:

WPA-PSK (the "mixed" setting in DD-WRT will accept WPA and WPA2 clients).

HTH

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Lewis
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