hi ya werner
On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Werner Otto wrote:
> I am looking for value for money, who doesn't :-)
used junk on ebay is the cheapest ... though i never buy there
but i know what people paid compared to retail pricing
> and needs to have
> allot of security capabilities such as WEP, WPA, WPA- Pres hared Key
> and preferably RSN (do they come out with this).
most all wireless pc cards ( pcmcia ) support WEP
- 64-bit or 128-bit wep is a separate issue
- not all cards support wpa ...
- not all commercial ap support wpa
( even if it did support wpa, which encryption mechanism is it )
- i donno why people would want to use "shred key"
( guess i'm clueless )
> The reason is I'm am doing a project and need to test and break
> wireless security. Most new access points have the "g" as appose to
> the "b" specifications.
all "g" cards support "b" but not the other way around
netgear products might not work with dlink/linksys/et.al
linksys products might not work with netgear/dlink/et.al
dlink products might not work with netgear/linksys/et.al
...guess what the next several dozen lines would be..
whether "it works" or not would depend on what you need/want out of it
- just to associate and get out on the wired net or ...
- want 64bit wep or 128bit wep ?
- want wpa or not and which key encryptions
- want managed mode support ( you are the client )
- want master mode support ( you are the ap )
- want adhoc mode ( you are the ap or client that want to do
anything you like )
- want to promiscuous mode to sniff the air for otehr wireless
traffic
- want shared key support ( why .. i donno .. )
- on and on ...
- want wireless security ???? ( use ssh2 for everything )
----------------------------
- if yu are not using ssh2/ssl ... consider your enemy to
have trivially sniffed all your data and other passwds too
> I think it would be good if the AP and card are able and supported by
> firmware upgrades.
good luck ... aint gonna happen ..
> I am not model specific but would like the card and
> AP to be from the same manufacturer, and be able to do the things I
> need to do and of course P&P into my Debian........
good luck again ... you'd need to which wireless modules is compiled into
your debian kernel and which wireless devices uses those modules
more wireless fun ...
http://linux-wireless.org
c ya
alvin
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