128-bit WEP and ifconfig

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Nov 2 04:14:00 UTC 2006


On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:42:29PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone care to elaborate on what I've goofed up? I've read the man
> page about 4 times, and I believe I have exactly 26 hex digits.  It's
> also the exact key all my *ugh* wintel boxes have on them:
> 
> water# ifconfig wi0 wepkey 1:0xbb2cc2093f788f0ebb67d28abd
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid Argument
> water#

Does your kernel contain the wlan_wep device?  If not, compile it in or
load it with "kldload wlan_wep".

-- Brooks
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