ok newbie question time.
on my campus, there is a wireless network. the network is set up such that it works with the ThinkPads [running win2k] and Lucent/IBM[orinoco(sic)] cards that are distributed to priviledged business students. I am not among them, but i do have my own ThinkPad 390e[333,192,6.4] and a [cheap-ass] Prism2 D Link 650. I have spoken to the head laptop support guy and he assures me that my card will Not work on their network, especially since i am running winXP, which apparently lacks support for multiple WEP keys[?]. it is possible he is blowing smoke up my ass, however, considering that i spoke with one of the Main Guys in the ITService and he was running XP with a sharp-looking Cisco card. he wouldn't tell me how though;)
so, using a combination ApSniff and Aerosol i detected 5 AP's around the cafeteria area. most were WEP-enabled, but one was not. i could see its MAC address, etc
so with my setup, should i be able to access this un-encrypted connection? should i let windows govern the settings? or set it up manually? DHCP or guess an IP? ad-hoc or what? is it even possible..? i never recieve any packets through the wireless connection, the counter remains at zero, despite saying "connected". i need a hint!