wireless DHCP + wep

[Pablo Allietti]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 03:45:11PM -0400, Bob Johnson wrote:
> On 8/18/05, Pablo Allietti <pablo at lacnic.net> wrote:

i try the dhclient option before. but nothing the same message 







> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:09:11AM -0800, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> > > On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38 am, Pablo Allietti wrote:
> > > > Hi all  i have a question.
> > 
> > ok this work but not assign any ip ... and when i run the dhclient iwi0
> > 
> > in the /var/log/mesages give an error
> > 
> > dhclient: Can't Attach interface iwi0 to bpf device /dev/bpf1: Network
> > is down
> > 
> > 
> > any help??? please
> > 
> > 
> > > >
> > > > i configure a Intel 2200 wireless card and the system detect ok and
> > load
> > > > in the start time.
> > > >
> > > > so. now i need to add wep Key and DHCP.
> > > >
> > > > is that possible to do in automatically.
> > > >
> > > > because rigth now i cant do dhcp and need to do a ifconfig blablabla
> > > > wepkey xxxxxx wepmode 0 any time when i restart my laptop.
> > > 
> > > In your /etc/rc.conf put:
> > > 
> > > ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"
> > > 
> > > Add the following file to /etc:    start_if.wi0
> > > 
> > > Add your ifconfig settings to that file:
> > > 
> > > ifconfig wi0 ssid whatever wepkey xxxxxx wepmode 0
> > > 
> > > Of course change wi0 to whatever driver your card uses. This worked for me
> > and 
> > > should work when you reboot.
> > > 
> > > Beech
> 
> It appears that in 6.0, you will be able to simultaneously invoke DHCP
> and include ifconfig options in the ifconfig_wi0 line of rc.conf, so
> this will become even simpler.
> 
> If you need to be able to move your laptop between networks with
> different WEP keys (or WEP vs. no WEP), dhclient.conf might still be
> the easiest method to use, although of course start_if.wi0 can be an
> arbitrarily complex script.
> 
> E.g. to support multiple networks in dhclient.conf you might say
> 
> interface "wi0" {
>   media 
>     "ssid home wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x123ab",
>     "ssid work wepmode on weptxkey 3 wepkey 3:0xabcde01234fe",
>     "ssid - wepmode off";
> }
>  
> Or something like that, give or take a syntax error or two.  The dhcp
> client will try each of those configurations in order until it finds
> one that successfully returns a dhcp configuration.
> 
> If you are using a version of FreeBSD that supports wpa_supplicant (6
> or 7, I think), then you would use its configuration file instead of
> dhclient.conf, with of course a totally different syntax.
> 
> - Bob
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Pablo Allietti
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