From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 1 14:00:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 27C7716A420; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 14:00:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc11.comcast.net (sccrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.202.55]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3974243D69; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:59:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.215] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc11) with ESMTP id <2005100113595201100rh50be>; Sat, 1 Oct 2005 13:59:57 +0000 Message-ID: <433E9658.9040101@computer.org> Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 08:59:52 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050930) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" References: <433D5215.6010101@computer.org> <20050930184537.GA3665@teardrop.org> <433DA1CF.7020502@computer.org> <20050930210541.GA11841@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <433DAE00.4090602@computer.org> <20050930222442.GA20004@odin.ac.hmc.edu> <433DEF54.7070201@computer.org> <1128173651.1231.4.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <1128173651.1231.4.camel@RabbitsDen> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-5; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mobile@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant and WEP.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 01 Oct 2005 14:00:05 -0000 Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 21:07 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote: > > >>Ah... hex *keys*... plural!! I should use all 4 of them? I had been >>using just the one declared as the default key to tx. I have attached a >>screenshot of what a linksys does when you setup WEP. Give it a >>cleartext passphrase and it generates 4 hex keys. On some systems you >>can enter the passphrase... others I've had to enter the 'default' key. >>Never thought to try all four keys at once. Is that what you think I >>should do? >> >> >>>How are you entering >>>your hex keys? The examples are a bit unclear, but digging around in >>>the code it looks like unquoted strings are assumed to be hex strings. >>>They should not be prefixed by 0x. >> >>I'll try them in the above format (I was prefixing with 0x). I'm not in >>the office but will try my home AP.... BRB.... >> >>Whoa!!! That's IT!!! >>Am I the only person who couldn't figure that out??? >>You must use all 4 hex keys and specify which is the default. >> > > No, you don't -- at least on -CURRENT of week or two ago following > wpa_supplicant.conf works quite well: > > ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant > ctrl_interface_group=wheel > > network={ > ssid="SillySSID" > scan_ssid=1 > priority=5 > key_mgmt=NONE > wep_key0=0123456789abcdef0123456789 > wep_tx_keyidx=0 > } > Yes... you are correct. One is sufficient. I got a little over zealous when entering keys. I simply must have had the format of the hex keys incorrect all this time. I must say, I have been trying to get WEP to work for an embarrisingly long time. WPA-PSK and open networks gave me no trouble though. But I tried for the longest time to get WEP going because thats how I had things setup from 5.x (since WPA was not supported) and I thought it would be easiest to just turn wpa_supplicant on without changing the wLAN. Anyways.... Thank you very much to all. -- Regards, Eric