Mac Wifi doesn't support Key Index... I think.
Not as far as I could find. And I lived with this for several years.
I need to configure my mac to work on our corporate wifi network. The problem is that our corporate network requires a key index of 2. Having this reconfigured is not an option.
A few years ago, I worked at HP and they used this stupid WEP rotating key algorithm based on using all 4 WEP keys, which they rotated once a month. They got around to using key 0 every 4 months. So for 3 months a year, I could use my Powerbook Pismo without an ethernet cable attached. It was a royal pain in the ...
I never figured out how to use any WEP key other than key 0.
WEP is so easy to crack, your corporate IT group is crazy for using it, even if they are using keys 2, 3 and 4.
The WiFi network at the company I currently work for, requires that you make a VPN connection. The WiFi network itself does not require any password, but the only place accessible on this network is the corporate VPN servers. So without a corporate VPN account the WiFi is not much use to anyone. And it has the benefit that all transmissions are encrypted using the VPN, which is much stronger than WEP.
And even more surprising is that my company actually provides a Mac and Linux VPN client for their VPN servers! When I worked at HP they purchased some rediculously small number of Mac VPN licenses and you could not get one of them. I do not think any of the Linux users even had that.
Is there any patch or third party support?
I do not know of any. Sorry.
