pccards

[Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:06 -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:27 +0100, Marcin Jessa wrote:
> 
> > http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
> 
> Perfect, that was what I needed, thanks! Now I have the card working
> with WEP, I still don't quite understand how to get the card to start up
> on boot. I have in my /etc/rc.conf 'ifconfig_ath0="ssid WEBTENT DHCP"'
> and I have the necessary modules loaded:
> 
> felipa# cat /boot/loader.conf
> wlan_wep_load="YES"
> wlan_tkip_load="YES"
> wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
> wlan_xauth_load="YES"
> wlan_acl_load="YES"
> 
> Another thing is I tried the wpa_supplicant.conf method of starting the
> card, but it just hangs, I have to just hit Ctrl+C after a long wait:
> 
> felipa# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> network={
>     ssid="WEBTENT"
>     key_mgmt=NONE
>     wep_key1=<MYKEY>
>     wep_tx_keyidx=1
> }
I tend to belive that ifconfig and wpa_supplicant disagree on numbering
of the key indices. In order to match 'weptxkey 1' below you want to
specify wep_key0 and wep_tx_keyidx=0 in your wpa_supplicant.conf.

Following wpa_supplicant.conf works here quite well:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel

network={
  ssid="MySsId"
  scan_ssid=1
  priority=5
  key_mgmt=NONE
  wep_key0=11111111111111111111111111
  wep_tx_keyidx=0
}

with proper SSID and key.

> felipa# wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> Trying to associate with 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 (SSID='WEBTENT' freq=2437
> MHz)
> Associated with 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
> ^CSignal 2 received - terminating
> ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 20, len 7]: Can't assign requested address
> 
> If I use the following, all works great with WEP and it gets a DHCP
> address even though I specified a static IP, I assume this is because I
> have that specified in /etc/rc.conf:
> 
> felipa# ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.1.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
> WEBTENT wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:<MYKEY>
> felipa# ifconfig -v ath0 ath0:
> flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>         inet 192.168.1.52 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>         ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid WEBTENT channel 6 (2437) bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
>         wepkey 1:104-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpowmax
> 32
>         txpower 60 rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 -pureg protmode
> CTS -wme        roaming AUTO bintval 100
> 
> Also, I assume my D-Link access point does not support WPA, so I am
> stuck with the weakness of WEP? Perhaps I'll try to setup my FreeBSD
> AP :)
Check for firmware update -- at least one of my D-Link parts
(DWL-G730AP) acquired ability to do WPA-PSK with last update.


-- 
Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko (Олександр Коваленко)