Subject: Re: Wavelan/Airport Trouble
To: John Valdes <valdes@uchicago.edu>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 11/29/2001 14:10:23
On Thu, 29 Nov 2001, John Valdes wrote:

> Also, verify that 0x0123456789 is the correct key value (well, I
> assume you made this specific key up, for illustrative purposes...);
> if you have admin access to the base station, access it under MacOS
> using the Airport Admin utility, and under one of the menus (Tools?
> I'm booted under NetBSD at the moment and can't check...), you'll find
> a command like "Show network equivalent password" or similar.  Select
> that item, and it will tell you the key in hex.  Alternately, if you
> have a working java implementation under NetBSD (I don't), you could
> use the java configurator from
> http://edge.mcs.drexel.edu/GICL/people/sevy/airport/

Also check out pkgsrc/net/airportbasestationconfig which is a package of
the above. Since it needs java, you'll need like an i386. :-(

Take care,

Bill