wireless help

Juan Ortega replay at sdf.lonestar.org
Thu Jan 4 18:45:06 PST 2007


Yea I looked at the that page but I'm still having truble
connecting.
Is there a program on freeBSD ports that can just connect
to me automatically




On Thu, 4 Jan 2007, Steve Franks wrote:

> Date: Thu, 4 Jan 2007 10:38:07 -0700
> From: Steve Franks <stevefranks at ieee.org>
> To: Juan Ortega <replay at sdf.lonestar.org>
> Cc: questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: wireless help
> 
> Juan,
>
> first, add the line,
>    wlan_wep_load="YES"
> to /boot/loader.conf, then add
>    ifconfig_ndis0="nwkey 0x2205801095 DHCP"
> to /etc/rc.conf and then reboot.  If I got some syntax wrong and that
> doesn't work, serch freebsd.org for 'wireless', and click on the link to
> advanced networking in the handbook - that have a very complete and
> excellent discussion of all the options.
>
> Steve
>
> On 1/3/07, Juan Ortega <replay at sdf.lonestar.org> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi im having trouble setting up my PCI card to connect to my access point
>> I have freeBSD-RC2-RELEASE
>> The driver I installed for it using ndis
>> when I enter the command "ifconfig ndis0 up scan"
>> it shows my access point
>> 
>> I tried ifconfig, and wpa_supplicant to configure it but dosent work
>> 
>> Heres what I have need to configure it to;
>> 
>> Infrastructue Mode
>> SSID: 2WIRE701
>> BSSID: 00:14:95:c6:af:91
>> Authmode: SHARED
>> WEP-KEY: 2205801095
>> Channel: 6
>> 
>> I'm not sure what weptxkey for my access point is,
>> if I need it, anyways I can know?
>> 
>> for the IP, cant DHCP set one up for it?
>> 
>> 
>> how do I put all that in ifconfig or wpa_supplicant
>> to make it connect?
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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