Apple Airport and Orinoco AP

[Kevin Brown]

Craig White wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 22:44, Kevin Brown wrote:
> 
>>Yep, that was one of the things I tried.  Unfortunatly it still doesn't join the 
>>network.  The AP doesn't show the MAC address of the Airport coming up.  Also my 
>>key isn't 13 chars long, but it is 128-bit WEP.  Could this be a problem?
> 
> ----
> one other thought - Apple is rude - they don't imprint the MAC on the
> card itself (nor does Linksys) but most of the other ones I have seen
> (wireless NIC's) do have the MAC on the cards.
> 
> I think that you might be able to 'arp' from a terminal window or get
> the MAC address from some syslog (my hd died a week ago and I haven't
> had the time to put OSX back on the new HD) to get the MAC address and
> then enter that into the table on the wireless base station.

The network setup under the System Preferences program showed me the MAC address 
of the Airport card, as did running ifconfig from the terminal window.  I'll try 
using the $ in front of my passphrase and see if that helps.  Unfortunately I 
don't know what the real 128-bit Key is, just what I enter for the Orinoco 
software to hash against to create the key.