[ANN] New kernels, gmac, airport, usb...

Chris Leishman chris_leishman at freeonline.com.au
Mon Jul 3 23:44:11 EST 2000


On Mon, Jul 03, 2000 at 02:55:41PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> >
> >Bugger.  I was hoping to use my airport - but I don't think I'll be
> allowed to
> >turn off security on our corporate wireless net ;)
>
> What I do is to configure the station to accept only the HW MAC address
> of my card.

Only problem here is that the traffic is still viewable by anyone, and it
probably isn't that hard to fake the the HW address...

>
> >I wonder if apple would be willing to let this out??  Probably not...
> >Does MacOS X support WEP yet?  Perhaps I should have a look through there.
>
> MacOS X does have a driver but it's not open sourced.
>

That would be right.  doh :(


Chris


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