pccard, wi0, wep and DHCP

[Uwe Laverenz]

On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 11:34:55PM +0200, Maarten Sanders wrote:

> 'ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"' this works and brings up wi0. Since my town is
> crowded with wardrivers I would like to use wep. Because my wife often

It's better than nothing, but WEP wouldn't stop a serious wardriver
these days. :)

> /etc/start_if.wi0 is not interpretted and the WEP key is not set so
> dhclient fails.

You could add something like this to your /etc/dhclient.conf:

interface "wi0" {
        media   "ssid <SSID> wepmode on wepkey <WEPKEY>";
}

Uwe