Dlink-g520 Wireless and WEP

[Daan Vreeken [PA4DAN]]

On Saturday 23 October 2004 05:21, scott renna wrote:
> So,
>
> Thanks to a fellow list member I got my 5.2.1 System
> to see my Dlink card.  The trouble now I'm having
> involves setting up WEP.  I am currently running WEP
> on a Netgear Wireless router 802.11b.  The Dlink does
> 802.11b/g. Here's what I'm running into when turning
> on WEP.  The router has a 26 character string for
> 128-bit WEP that I created via a passphrase.  Windows
> takes it and works well wirelessly but when I
> configure my card, here's wha t happens on BSD:
>
>  ifconfig ath0 192.168.2.175 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ssid SSID_NAME wepmode on wepkey
> 0xyxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Try this :
ifconfig ath0 192.168.2.175 netmask 255.255.255.0 wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 
1:0xdead0beef0

Make sure you have the number of hex digits right : 10 digits for 64 bit 
encryption or 26 for 128 bit encryption).

grtz,
Daan