wpa_supplicant and WEP....

James Snow snow+freebsd-current at teardrop.org
Fri Sep 30 11:45:39 PDT 2005


On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:56:21AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> 
> I have gotten wpa_supplicant to work fine for WPA-PSK and open sites... 
> but I would like it to work with WEP as well.  it appears to associate 
> with a WEP site no matter what WEP key I give it.  But whether the key 
> is correct or not... I can not get a response from my DHCP server.
> 
> My wpa_supplicant entry:
...
>    wep_tx_keyidx=0

I would try dropping this line. I use wpa_supplicant to connect to a
number of different wireless networks and for the WEP-only ones I've
never needed anything more than:

ssid=...
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_key0=...


-Snow



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