Issue with WEP and ath wlan driver on 6.0-STABLE

[Lukas Razik]

Hello!

Sorry, I found my mistake:
I didn't set 'weptxkey 1' in the config line because I only looked for 'deftxkey' (like it's shown from ifconfig) and didn't find anything in the manpage of ifconfig.

Regards,
Lukas



Lukas Razik schrieb am 26.12.05 16:47:24:
>
> Hello!
>
> Yesterday I've cvsuped my 5.3 system to RELENG_6 and now I have an issue with my Atheros 5212 wlan card.
> The problem is that if I don't use WEP mode then all works fine. But if I want to use WEP as I've done it under 5.3-RELEASE then I can't ping any hosts in the network (I wait and get no answeres and no error message from ping)...
> I've tried to load the wlan, wlan_wep, if_ath modules in different ways (from loader.conf, manually, in different order...) but there's always the same problem - i can't get a connection to the wlan network.
>
> The loaded kernel modules are:
> ...
> wlan.ko
> wlan_wep.ko
> if_ath.ko
> ath_rate.ko
> ath_hal.ko
>
> The config line in rc.conf is:
> ifconfig_ath0="inet 192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid razik.de wepmode mixed wepkey 1234567890123"
>
> The ifconfig ath0 output is:
> ath0:...
> inet6 ...
> inet 192.168.0.12 netmask 255.255.255.0....
> ether ...
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps)
> status: associated
> ssid: razik.de channel 9 bssid 00:04e2:ab:85:6e
> authmode OPEN privacy MIXED deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 47
> protmode CTS burst bintval 100
>
> dmesg output is:
> ath0: mem .....
> ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:a3.......
> ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6
> ath0: link state changed to UP
>
> Does anyone have an idea what there could be wrong?
>
> Regards,
> Lukas