Cisco Aironet and Apple Airport - Pb with roaming

Hello,
I'm having a problem with roaming between one Cisco Aironet 1232AG AP and one Airport Extreme basestation. Both AP are on the same subnet, hidden network and WEP 40bits.
0->Cisco->Apple->Cisco->....... works fine
0->Apple->Cisco doesn't works
0-> means Pwk restarted
Any clues?
Thanks

No. I tried with both AP on the same channel or on a different channel same issue. Also, same problem with WEP 128bits. However the issue disappears with WPA personal (TKIP or AES-CCMP)

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