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Skriven 2008-02-08 13:32:34 av Jeff Guerdat (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av James Bradley
Ärende: Re: W98 CD update.
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James Bradley wrote:

>  JG> It may simply be that the broadcast of the SSID is turned off.  It
>  JG> doesn't  truly hide the network but adds a bit more work into 
>  JG> hacking into it.  A wireless sniffer would easily decode 
>  JG> the SSID from any packets being transferred.
> 
> No small chore to decode four 128b keys?

Nah - that's what computers are for.  Besides, it'd be the SSID that 
you're after, at least initially.  That's not encrypted.

> Odd thing is, DHCP was NOT set! Ta hell if I know how, but all *sorts* of odd
> settings were in place. I jotted them down, and rebooted into W98. After I
did
> a site survey with a static address, I picked a channel, and went to turn on
> DHCP. Rebooted; and *bingo!* Apparently, I don't need to do a site survey
> inside the same session. Heck, my last site survey inside Linux was done at
> another branch, a week earlier.

Seems like you just hit on the setup needed.  I wonder if the AP gets 
it's address from the library but doesn't pass it on to your computer. 
The wired side of the AP may have a separate DHCP configuration, ala a 
normal wireless router.  Whatever - as long as it works!

> The BIOS is only supposed to accept 20G HDs, but I dropped in a 9.5mm 30G
> adsconded from a USB drive, and it's fine. Maybe because it's partitioned
with
> Linux???

That wouldn't affect what the BIOS supports.  I haven't heard of a 20GB 
limit - maybe that was what the laptop manufacturer said as the largest 
drive they sold.  I've seen that happen - the BIOS actually supports 
much larger drives.

> I suppose I *could* use linx/links/whatever, but I tend to sprawl out a bit.
I
> need to know when Singapore sees a sunrise, and look at a man page or three
at
> the same time as I punch stuff into a terminal, with a browser full of some
> other stuff - then I start to fill a virtual screen with the fun stuff. <G>

Oh, yeah, momma!  Even with a desktop set up with a 20" monitor set at 
1600x1200 and a 24" widescreen at 1920x1200, I still need to resort to 
virtual windows.  That's what I call a killer app for me!  ;)

>  JB> I think that is spot-on to my problem. I lose contact with the device,
>  JB> and lose the ability to run a site survey, when I do go DHCP.
> 
>  JG> Lose contact with which device - the library net or your AP?  I gotta
> 
> If you mean Access Point, yes. It needs my TCP/IP to be static for me to
change
> anything on the 11g device. As soon as I leave the segment the AP is on, I
> loose the ability to tweak any setting on it. I need to call up a web page,
> stored inside the devices NVRAM to change any of its settings.

Ok, so you AP is really just a single port router (maybe without a 
firewall).  Works for me.

> Hey... Thanks for the input! After a fight with M$es update site, I was able
to
> coherse FF to initiate the IE 6 setup. IE 4 was unable to run page ONE.

Yee! Haw!!

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Jeff Guerdat

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