Re: [NTLK] AirPort Express and Newton

From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Tue Oct 12 2004 - 07:18:58 PDT


Jeffrey McMurtrie wrote:
> Incase anyone is interested, Hiroshi has recently updated his site with
> the below information:
> Test Result with AirPort Express Base Station
>
> AirPort BaseStion: AirPort Software 4.0.1
<snip>
>
> *** Test2
>
> WaveLAN card: Planex GW-NS11H (Prism 3.0 chip-set)
>
> WEP: Yes, 128bit ASCII (13 chars, same as test1)
> Without DHCP: success
> With DHCP: fail
>

To translate, this basicially implies that a Prism 3.0 based card is unable to
DHCP to an AirPort Express using WEP.

Cause could be:
-bug in Hirochi's driver
-bug in NIE's awful DHCP implementation
-bug in AirPort Express firmware.

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