Having much trouble with wep on wireless

[Chris]

David LeCount wrote:
> I give in. I've been working for hours on this without
> resolution. I just bought a wireless router and I'm
> trying to get wep working. I'm pretty sure it's
> working on the router side. I'm having trouble setting
> the key in FreeBSD. The man page says to use wepkey to
> set it, but that's been giving errors. When I just do
> "ifconfig ath0", I notice there's a deftxkey, so I've
> been using that to try to set the key. The problem is
> that when I use it, it still says it's undefined
> despite no errors. Here's an example:
> 
> kenshi# ifconfig ath0 wepmode on deftxkey 0x0123456789
> kenshi# ifconfig ath0
> ath0:
> flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu
> 1500
>         inet6 fe80::213:46ff:fe6e:def9%ath0 prefixlen
> 64 scopeid 0x1 
>         ether 00:13:46:6e:de:f9
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet
> autoselect (OFDM/36Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid bahamut channel 6 bssid 00:14:bf:b4:c3:e8
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF
> txpowmax 36 protmode CTS
>         bintval 100
> 
> Since it says privacy is on, I believe that means
> wepmode was set, but I can't set the key for anything.
> By the way, if I run ifconfig with all the parameters,
> including the IP address, it says:
> 
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
> 
> This has me completely baffled. I thought I got it
> working once, but when I set it in rc.conf and
> restarted, it no longer worked and I haven't managed
> to get it working again. I appreciate any help.

Here's some help via my setup - assuming you use 6.0:

/etc/rc.conf:
ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid yourssid
wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 0x.........................."


/boot/loader.conf:
if_wi0_load="YES"
wlan_load="YES"
wlan_wep_load="YES"


Couple of notes - sub wi0 for your nic, and I use static. Adjust for
DHCP if needed.




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Chris

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