[MLB-WIRELESS] Enterasys/Roamabout cards AP registry hack

[Rusty Kau]

would you have any recommendations of software that get be used to perform 
this task ? or if any exist ?



>From: paul van den bergen <pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au>
>To: melbwireless at wireless.org.au
>Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] Enterasys/Roamabout cards  AP registry hack
>Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2003 12:30:44 +1000
>
>On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 11:59 am, Rusty Kau wrote:
> > Hi Group,
> >
> > I have been using an Enterasys/Roamabout card from the group buy on
> > Melbourne TIB for a while now and have discovered that by using a 
>registry
> > hack and changing a key APMODE to 1 under win2k, the card can behave as 
>an
> > AP.
> >
> > I have completed the hack, and the card is acting as a Base Station. 
>From
> > another wireless computer, netstumbler reports the card as an AP.
> >
> > I can associate to the card fine, signal strength is at 100%, but it 
>doesnt
> > want to send and recieve packets.
> >
> > Has anyone encountered this before, or know of a workaround ?
> >
> > Thanks in advance
>
>I am not surprised at this...
>
>The reason these cards are listed as not being able to act as an AP is 
>because
>they do not have the ability to do bridging internally.  So to get it to 
>act
>_like_ an AP, one would need to handle the packets in the OS software. I.e.
>the OS or routing software etc. would have to decide what to do with the
>incomming frames as the card cannot do this.  Just turning the flag in the
>registry to on will not work because there is nothing in the card to 
>actually
>do the work, even though everything else is correctly lablelled as such...
>
>In other words, the reason that the card cannot see or send traffic when 
>set
>as an AP is because the OS assumes the card is doing the work.... which it
>isn't...
>
>--
>Dr Paul van den Bergen
>Centre for Advanced Internet Architectures
>caia.swin.edu.au
>pvandenbergen at swin.edu.au
>IM:bulwynkl2002
>"And some run up hill and down dale, knapping the chucky stones
>to pieces wi' hammers, like so many road makers run daft.
>They say it is to see how the world was made."
>Sir Walter Scott, St. Ronan's Well 1824
>
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