[iwn driver] SIOCS80211 error on 4965AGN
Sam Leffler
sam at freebsd.org
Thu Aug 14 04:51:13 UTC 2008
Rohit Tripathi wrote:
>> That shoud be... :)
>>
>> ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0
>
> Great! I ran the above and wlan0 was created without any issues. Next
> I tried to setup wlan0 with:
>
> ssid HAM authmod shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey blahblah DHCP
>
> and I first noticed ifconfig complain: "authmod: bad value", "missing
> or corrupted regdomain database" and the os complain: "iwn0: need
> multicast update callback"
>
> ( Here's what came up with a google search on the last error
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2008-April/085152.html
> http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2008-04/msg00554.html
> )
man ifconfig for most of this. The regdomain database complaint means
you don't have /etc/regdomain.xml installed which means your system is
not installed properly.
The iwn complaint can be ignored.
I would not be at all surprised if iwn does not implemented shared key
auth wep correctly as it's a really bad idea and so likely not tested.
If wep is your only option I'd just turn it off entirely; it provides
zero security.
Sam
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