New Snow Firmware
MacCentral reports that Apple has released an update to the firmware on snow (only!) AirPort Base Stations to fix a variety of tiny problems. None of this seems to be related to AirPort Extreme compatibility, which makes sense: AirPort Extreme is supposed to work with 802.11b devices without any changes.
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No, the Airport Extreme card *does not* work with some Wi-Fi certified systems. For example, I could not associate (it did not even see it) to a Cisco Aironet 1100 access point configured as open.
Posted by: Borja Marcos | March 7, 2003 02:59 AM
I wonder if we'll see a firmware upgrade for the card shortly, then? The card may still be on the previous 802.11g draft.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman | March 7, 2003 07:23 AM
Hello Borja.
Probably, is a cause this?
In an association request packet, Extream terminal reports itself as the length of "BSSRate" is 12.
(Maximum of Specified Length was 8 in "802.11 1999")
Another (NOT APPLE) .11g cards hear broadcasting of an Access Point and notifie the right length.
If you have a Wireles LAN sniffer (ex. AiroPeek, Kismet... etc.), Please check this.
Posted by: Akinori AIZAWA | March 9, 2003 05:39 PM
Yes, it is part of the problem. It was discussed at the BSD-wireless mailing list. FreeBSD can act as an AP, and Airport Extreme cards cannot associate to it. A minor modification to the FreeBSD driver source can do the trick, and the modification changes the length of an array. I can forward you the relevant messages if you want.
However, there are more problems. I don't know which is the AP density value it uses by default, etc.
Posted by: Borja Marcos | March 10, 2003 02:13 AM