On 3 Nov 2006 at 9:10, Harondel J. Sibble wrote: > On 2 Nov 2006 at 17:03, Bernie Cosell wrote: > > > situation is that if I took out my wireless card and plugged it into > > another computer, it would come up all authenticated and ready to go. > > Odd, but I think that *THAT"S* a security problem [and one I hadn't > > realized was lurking there].... I need to take more careful care of my > > pcmcia wireless card than I thought I did..:o) [and also, if I > > sell/passon my wireless card, I'll need to take steps to ensure that it > > "forgets" all of its hidden keys, something that wouldn't have occurred > > to me.] > > That is NOT an issue AFAIK, most devices DON'T store that info on the nic, > that is handled upstream by the OS and the driver.
That's what I would have guessed, which brings me back to the question of where on my XP system it is storing the WEP info for wireless card 1 and whether I might have a chance of transferring that authentication info to wireless card 2. [As I mentioned, the alternative is a real PITA: chasing down a bunch of netadmins and getting them to re-WEP my new card [and the annoyance that if that card died and I had to buy a new one, I'd have to go through all of it AGAIN]]. [btw, I'm not sure how it works for the rest of you, but when I got auths for the six or seven nets I have in my old wireless card, I *never* had the actual WEP key: the admins told me the SSID, I typed it in and then *they* put the WEP key in.. I never saw it or had access to it, and that's why it is such a pain. It is one thing to "save config" on my own router, but quite another to have to chase down net admins at different schools/businesses and get all this done over and over] /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <-- -- ---------------------------------------- To Change your email Address for this list, send the following message: CHANGE WIN-HOME your_old_address your_new_address to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note carefully that both old and new addresses are required.
