WiFiNERD
11-30-2002, 10:00 PM
I found this thread by doing a google search on orinoco+regitry+hack.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=orinoco%2Bregistry%2Bhack
What I was searching for was the registry key to change the MAC address for my card but suddnley got detered by this thread. I found the settings in the registry and change APmode to 1 and reset the profile. I looked over and my netstumbler had found a new access point. I further went on to change the OwnSSID to TestAP reset the profile again, and yep, TestAP was the name of the network I was looking at. Ok, I hate channel 10 which is where it defaulted to so I changed the OwnChannel setting to b and reset the profile, sure enough channel 11. I played with alot of registry keys in my profile but still could not get this to work.
Alot of people on this and other threads talked about them realeaing this capability on thier next rev in the software. I've already seen it on a Toshiba Satelite 5205-S703. This laptop had an Orinoco Mini-PCI wlan card built in, when I installed the not so well functioning toshiba version of the client manager on Windows 2000, guess what, it had an option for BaseStation in it. Not having my tools at work with me I couldn't play with it and now my client has the laptop.
Anyone got one of these laptops? Post the differences in the registry, we need to figure this out!!! I've attached my registry settings to this post. I'm going to download the Toshiba Version again and play. It will probably not work. Anyone else playing with this?? Post your results. Check back here, I'll be updating when I find something new.
Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Bret Fisher bret@fishersolutions.com
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:16:29 -0400
I've learned a touch more about this in the last 48 hours...
- AP functionality on the agere/proxim/alien chipset is accomplished
through that agere calls tertiary firmware. This firmware image is
now included in the newest 2k drivers. The firmware is loaded into
dynamic memory and is not part of the card. (or so I've been told).
That's why this hasn't been possible before.
- rumors are that this will be part of the client configuration
utility at the next rev. So there won't be a need for a registry
hack, just pull down the menu and select "AP mode". groovy.
later
bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: rfmon-admin@novawireless.org
[mailto:rfmon-admin@novawireless.org] On Behalf Of Don Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:25 AM
To: don_bailey@hotmail.com; gdead@shmoo.com;
Subject: Re: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Well, for Windows 2000, it appears to work. Further testing is
needed. Here are my initial results...
I created a new profile called "Fake Access Point" with a desired
SSID of "Netfumbler", and then using regedit, found that profile as
"Config06" under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver and changed the
"APMode" to a
value of "1". I then selected the new profile from the
Orinoco client
manager.
Firing up Netstumbler on another Orinoco enabled laptop, an access
point certainly did get discovered. However, the channel was 10
and the SSID was
"unspecified SSID" or something or other. Manufacturer showed up as
"Agere", which is to be expected.
Going a bit further, I changed the "OwnChannel" and "OwnSSID"
registry keys under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver\Config0 6 to "3" and
"Netfumbler" respectively. I then deselected the "Fake Access
Point" profile in the Orinoco client manager and then reselected it
(to reload setttings presumably). I then restarted Netstumbler on
the other laptop and
sure enough, the SSID was "Netfumbler" and the channel was "3".
I turned off Netstumbler. I assigned a private IP to the newly
enabled AP Orinoco card's TCP/IP settings and an IP on the same
subnet to the stumbling
laptop. They could not connect to each other, despite the
stumbling laptop
being able to associate to the pseudo-AP with no problems.
I'm thinking
this is much like the Orinoco AP-2000s where the actual
wireless cards don't
(can't?) have IPs and the ethernet device on the far side does.
That being said, it would be interesting to see if the ethernet nic
on the pseudo-AP laptop could be configured with an IP and connected
to a wired
network, Internet connection sharing or WinRoute enabled, and
then if you
could take a client to associate to the Windows pseudo-AP and
get to the far
side network and beyond.
The idea being: Use a quick regedit and WinRoute to turn a Windows
2000 box into an AP in less than 2 minutes. Kick ass.
To hell with HostAP? ;)
Sincerely,
Beetle
From: "Don Bailey" <don_bailey@hotmail.com>
To: gdead@shmoo.com, rfmon@novawireless.org
Subject: Re: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:40:40 -0400
Looks like its:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver
And then APMode appears as a dword value in each config
subkey. I'll
play
with this tomorrow morning.
It would be way cool if this really worked.
Beetle
----Original Message-----
From: B Potter <gdead@shmoo.com>
To: rfmon@novawireless.org
Subject: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:07:34 -0800 (AKDT)
Howdy,
Check out http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/LucentBssMode for
info on turning your lucent card into an AP on a windows
machine. I
can't test this on my machine b/c I don't have the same
entry in the
registry the author talks about. Anyone else care to give this a
shot?
later
bruce
"I'm down with that, as it were"
-curator
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=orinoco%2Bregistry%2Bhack
What I was searching for was the registry key to change the MAC address for my card but suddnley got detered by this thread. I found the settings in the registry and change APmode to 1 and reset the profile. I looked over and my netstumbler had found a new access point. I further went on to change the OwnSSID to TestAP reset the profile again, and yep, TestAP was the name of the network I was looking at. Ok, I hate channel 10 which is where it defaulted to so I changed the OwnChannel setting to b and reset the profile, sure enough channel 11. I played with alot of registry keys in my profile but still could not get this to work.
Alot of people on this and other threads talked about them realeaing this capability on thier next rev in the software. I've already seen it on a Toshiba Satelite 5205-S703. This laptop had an Orinoco Mini-PCI wlan card built in, when I installed the not so well functioning toshiba version of the client manager on Windows 2000, guess what, it had an option for BaseStation in it. Not having my tools at work with me I couldn't play with it and now my client has the laptop.
Anyone got one of these laptops? Post the differences in the registry, we need to figure this out!!! I've attached my registry settings to this post. I'm going to download the Toshiba Version again and play. It will probably not work. Anyone else playing with this?? Post your results. Check back here, I'll be updating when I find something new.
Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Bret Fisher bret@fishersolutions.com
Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:16:29 -0400
I've learned a touch more about this in the last 48 hours...
- AP functionality on the agere/proxim/alien chipset is accomplished
through that agere calls tertiary firmware. This firmware image is
now included in the newest 2k drivers. The firmware is loaded into
dynamic memory and is not part of the card. (or so I've been told).
That's why this hasn't been possible before.
- rumors are that this will be part of the client configuration
utility at the next rev. So there won't be a need for a registry
hack, just pull down the menu and select "AP mode". groovy.
later
bruce
-----Original Message-----
From: rfmon-admin@novawireless.org
[mailto:rfmon-admin@novawireless.org] On Behalf Of Don Bailey
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 9:25 AM
To: don_bailey@hotmail.com; gdead@shmoo.com;
Subject: Re: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Well, for Windows 2000, it appears to work. Further testing is
needed. Here are my initial results...
I created a new profile called "Fake Access Point" with a desired
SSID of "Netfumbler", and then using regedit, found that profile as
"Config06" under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver and changed the
"APMode" to a
value of "1". I then selected the new profile from the
Orinoco client
manager.
Firing up Netstumbler on another Orinoco enabled laptop, an access
point certainly did get discovered. However, the channel was 10
and the SSID was
"unspecified SSID" or something or other. Manufacturer showed up as
"Agere", which is to be expected.
Going a bit further, I changed the "OwnChannel" and "OwnSSID"
registry keys under
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver\Config0 6 to "3" and
"Netfumbler" respectively. I then deselected the "Fake Access
Point" profile in the Orinoco client manager and then reselected it
(to reload setttings presumably). I then restarted Netstumbler on
the other laptop and
sure enough, the SSID was "Netfumbler" and the channel was "3".
I turned off Netstumbler. I assigned a private IP to the newly
enabled AP Orinoco card's TCP/IP settings and an IP on the same
subnet to the stumbling
laptop. They could not connect to each other, despite the
stumbling laptop
being able to associate to the pseudo-AP with no problems.
I'm thinking
this is much like the Orinoco AP-2000s where the actual
wireless cards don't
(can't?) have IPs and the ethernet device on the far side does.
That being said, it would be interesting to see if the ethernet nic
on the pseudo-AP laptop could be configured with an IP and connected
to a wired
network, Internet connection sharing or WinRoute enabled, and
then if you
could take a client to associate to the Windows pseudo-AP and
get to the far
side network and beyond.
The idea being: Use a quick regedit and WinRoute to turn a Windows
2000 box into an AP in less than 2 minutes. Kick ass.
To hell with HostAP? ;)
Sincerely,
Beetle
From: "Don Bailey" <don_bailey@hotmail.com>
To: gdead@shmoo.com, rfmon@novawireless.org
Subject: Re: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 22:40:40 -0400
Looks like its:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ORiNOCO\Driver
And then APMode appears as a dword value in each config
subkey. I'll
play
with this tomorrow morning.
It would be way cool if this really worked.
Beetle
----Original Message-----
From: B Potter <gdead@shmoo.com>
To: rfmon@novawireless.org
Subject: [Rfmon] Turn your lucent card into an AP?
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 12:07:34 -0800 (AKDT)
Howdy,
Check out http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/LucentBssMode for
info on turning your lucent card into an AP on a windows
machine. I
can't test this on my machine b/c I don't have the same
entry in the
registry the author talks about. Anyone else care to give this a
shot?
later
bruce
"I'm down with that, as it were"
-curator