Wireless adapter associated, rx ok, tx ko
Jeremie Le Hen
jeremie at le-hen.org
Fri Feb 29 12:43:28 UTC 2008
Sam,
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:16:37PM -0800, Sam Leffler wrote:
> Jeremie Le Hen wrote:
> > Thanks for your reply. You are right indeed. It was not obvious to me
> > that I should set a tx keyid manually, partly because when setting the
> > WEP key, ifconfig(8) assumes key 1 if no index is specified.
> > Would it be correct to set the default tx keyid to 1? On the contrary,
> > I will provide an update to the manpage stating setting the default tx
> > keyid is mandatory.
>
> Yes, it seems the man page doesn't call out that you need to setup a
> deftxkey in order for outbound traffic to be encrypted when using WEP. If
> you use wpa_supplicant it will do that for you.
>
> Please send me something for ifconfig(8).
You will find a diff against the ifconfig(8) manpage attached. Feel
free to reword what you feel necessary, as I'm not a native english
speaker.
Thank you.
Regards,
--
Jeremie Le Hen
< jeremie at le-hen dot org >< ttz at chchile dot org >
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