128bit WEP keys and ifconfig

Pawel Worach pawel.worach at telia.com
Wed Nov 17 17:16:10 PST 2004


Vincent Poy wrote:
> ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf8fe0000-0xf8feffff irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci2
> ath0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ath0: mac 5.6 phy 4.1 5ghz radio 1.7 2ghz radio 2.3
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:80:c8:12:03:dd
> ath0: 11a rates: 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36Mbps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> ath0: 11b rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps
> ath0: 11g rates: 1Mbps 2Mbps 5.5Mbps 11Mbps 6Mbps 9Mbps 12Mbps 18Mbps 24Mbps 36M
> bps 48Mbps 54Mbps
> 

I also have problems with this card on an IBM ThinkPad T41. The funny
thing is that it only lists 802.11a and 11g rates, no 11b.
Anyway, if I fire up tcpdump I can see traffic in clear text so my
wep key and stuff works but I can not send anything and the status
is always "no carrier". Could it be an issue with the radio being
off (like just the transmitter was off)? The radio-switch only seems
to turn on/off bluetooth but not the wireless radio in FreeBSD, is there
any software that can do this?

Any ideas? More info?

-- 
Pawel


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