54g Wireless - Mac Os 10 and Mac Os X

4 Apr 2005 6:58 PM

Blue Wezza

Hi there,

I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the other
is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network router
is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway of
allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?

Thanks

Wesley

4 Apr 2005 9:35 PM

nospam

In article <3bdh26F6gl5t***@individual.net>, Blue Wezza
<blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
> IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the other
> is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network router
> is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway of
> allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?

sure - update the firmware on the airport card and you'll get 128 bit
wep. if you are running mac os x 10.3 (panther) you will even get wpa
too.

run software update and select all of the airport related items. you
may want to update the other stuff too. note that you may need to run
the updater a few times, as some updates require earlier updates.

it is also wise to run disk utility before updating to be sure there
are no major disk problems which can potentially affect system software
changes (and anything else for that matter).

6 Apr 2005 10:32 AM

Blue Wezza

Thanks for your time

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"nospam" <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote in message
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> In article <3bdh26F6gl5t***@individual.net>, Blue Wezza
> <blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
>> IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the
>> other
>> is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network
>> router
>> is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway
>> of
>> allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?
>
> sure - update the firmware on the airport card and you'll get 128 bit
> wep. if you are running mac os x 10.3 (panther) you will even get wpa
> too.
>
> run software update and select all of the airport related items. you
> may want to update the other stuff too. note that you may need to run
> the updater a few times, as some updates require earlier updates.
>
> it is also wise to run disk utility before updating to be sure there
> are no major disk problems which can potentially affect system software
> changes (and anything else for that matter).
>

4 Apr 2005 10:06 PM

Neill Massello

Blue Wezza <blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

> I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
> IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the other
> is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network router
> is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway of
> allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?

Upgrade the OS on the older iBook, if necessary, so that it will have a
recent version of the AirPort driver. Any AirPort card can do WEP 128 or
WPA.

6 Apr 2005 10:32 AM

Blue Wezza

Thanks for your time

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"Neill Massello" <neillmasse***@earthlink.net> wrote in message
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> Blue Wezza <blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
>> IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the
>> other
>> is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network
>> router
>> is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway
>> of
>> allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?
>
> Upgrade the OS on the older iBook, if necessary, so that it will have a
> recent version of the AirPort driver. Any AirPort card can do WEP 128 or
> WPA.
>
>

4 Apr 2005 10:12 PM

Mark McIntyre

On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:58:09 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless , "Blue
Wezza" <blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
>IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the other
>is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network router
>is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway of
>allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?

Yes, use 64-bit on both cards. But remember that WEP is about as
secure as a chocolate safe.

--
Mark McIntyre
CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>

6 Apr 2005 10:33 AM

Blue Wezza

Cheers Mark

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"Mark McIntyre" <markmcintyre@spamcop.net> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 19:58:09 +0100, in alt.internet.wireless , "Blue
> Wezza" <blue-we***@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I have two apple laptops coming into our work network - one is an oldish
>>IBook with an original Airport card which supports 64bit WEP and the other
>>is a brand new IBook with 128bit WEP security. Our wireless network router
>>is a belkin but only allows us to set 64 bit OR 128 bit - is there anyway
>>of
>>allowing either of these computers onto the network whilst securing it?
>
> Yes, use 64-bit on both cards. But remember that WEP is about as
> secure as a chocolate safe.
>
> --
> Mark McIntyre
> CLC FAQ <http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html>
> CLC readme: <http://www.ungerhu.com/jxh/clc.welcome.txt>
>