Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
Kiffin Gish
kiffin at gish.demon.nl
Tue Dec 27 09:10:43 PST 2005
Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel
configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck.
# /boot/loader.conf
wlan_wep_load="YES"
# /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
device wlan_wep
But still no luck. What am I forgetting?
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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh at alphaque.com>
To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin at gish.demon.nl>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:06
Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
>
>
> On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following:
>> Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get
>> the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer).
>>
>> During boot I get the following error message:
>>
>> "ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now"
>>
>> If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode on ..., I get
>> the
>> following error message:
>>
>> "ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not permitted"
>
> have you tried kldload wlan_wep ? :)
>
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