Next message: Darryl Lee: "Re: [WinMac] Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport"
I suspect that the problem is the Apple Airport cards only
support 40 bit encryption. They probably have their network
configured to require 128 bit encryption.
I heard a rumor that Apple is releasing a 128 bit version of
the card in the near future. Supposedly it has already shipped.
At 11:04 AM -0400 8/21/01, KRushing wrote:
>From: Kit <krushing@cecasun.utc.edu>
>----------------------------
>
>UT Chattanooga is installing a Sysco Wireless Aeronet system in the
>university library. Long range plans call for the system to be
>expanded from the library to other buildings on campus.
>
>The two wireless systems, Sysco Aeronet and Apple Airport, seem to
>be incompatible.
>
>Our Macintosh computers with airport cards installed can see the
>Sysco system. The Sysco system sees the airport card. However,
>only limited communication between the two systems seems to be
>possible. Airport card equipped Macs working through the Sysco
>wireless base stations are able to access some parts of the
>World-Wide-Web via html and browsers - however, the communication
>between the two technologies is very limited and the transfer of
>e-mail and some other complex web communications simply do not exist
>between Airport and Aeronet.
>
>After trying unsuccessfully several settings configurations within
>the Sysco wireless base stations, the UTC technical folk on campus
>are now saying that if Mac users wish to have wiresless access in
>the library (and, I suppose, in the expanded wireless system
>proposed for the future), the Mac users will either have to convert
>to Windows operating system laptops with Sysco Aeronet cards
>installed or the Mac users will have to replace their Apple internal
>airport cards with PCMIA Aeronet cards.
>
>My question to the Win-Mac list is this: does anyone on the list
>have experience with attempting to make compatible Sysco Aeronet
>wireless with Apple Airport?
>
>(As an aside, one of our support people told me today that in his
>opinion, "Lucent is going belly-up anyway, so Apple is going to have
>to find another supplier for its Airport cards." I'm not sure what
>that means for my problem, but it was an interesting observation,
>nonetheless.)
>
>--kit
>
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