Wireless pc card on FreeBSD 6.0

[Alexander Karenin]

> I have my wireless card associating with my access point using the
> following command from the doc at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD
> +5.3-RELEASE
> 
> # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT
> # ifconfig
> ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>         ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
>         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100
> 
> But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection to
> the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to the
> wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would this
> be?
> 
> Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but not
> sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX needed
> from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And I'd like
> to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this?
> 
> --
> Robert

As far as I know, you should have hostapd daemon running and configured
to get some WEP or PSK, or WEP-PSK sec working.

Try to search in google on how to do that, or wait for others to help
you. I'm now trying to make my WEP-PSK working - and can only offer you
to read message Vol. 113 issue 11 from this list (Wednesday of November)
- mesg. 31: FreeBSD 6, hostap, ral0 (Christer Solskogen)