wireless dongle Howto.

[Mel]

On Thursday 07 February 2008 22:45:58 Dead Line wrote:

> Now im trying to connect to my router ,, but all the attempts fails..
> here is my /etc/rc.conf
>
> # ifconfig_ural0="DHCP"# ifconfig_ural0="ssid WatchingYou
> DHCP"#ifconfig_ural0="ssid WatchingYou wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey
> 1:3230xxxxxx DHCP"#ifconfig_ural0="authmode wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey
> 3230xxxxxx DHCP"ifconfig_ural0="ssid WatchingYou authmode open wepmode on
> weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:3230xxxxxx DHCP"#
>
> I tried all the hashed lines in the rc.conf but no luck always when i try
> to to start the device it gives up.. # /etc/rc.d/netif startural0: no link
> .............. giving up

It's a bit mangled, but the thing I see:
- wepkey must start with 0x if given to ifconfig

example:
ifconfig_ural0="ssid WatchingYou wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x3230xx DHCP"


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Mel