Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:42:57 +1000 From: Warren Toomey <wkt@tuhs.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Help with WEP keys on FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <20060315124257.GA25917@minnie.tuhs.org>
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Hi all, while I'm fine with wired networks, I am having trouble getting WEP set up on a new Dell laptop. The box has an iwi wireless card in it, and I'm trying to establish a connection to a WRT54G access point that runs OpenWRT. On the OpenWRT side, I have wl0_hwaddr=00:14:BF:74:D4:5E wl0_closed=1 wl0_ifname=eth1 wl0_key1=3f352a2149646c675e5e2abcde wl0_radio=1 wl0_ssid=fred [ the key and ssid changed slightly for security ] wl0_wep=enabled wl0_wep_bit=104 wifi_ipaddr=10.10.2.1 wifi_netmask=255.255.255.0 Using Windoze XP on the Dell laptop, I can associate with the WRT54G with WEP turned on, and ping the access point. However, with FreeBSD 6.0, I can only ping the access point when I disable WEP. With WEP enabled on the WRT54G, I run these commands on FreeBSD: ifconfig iwi0 10.10.2.20 netmask 255.255.255.0 channel 6 ssid fred ifconfig iwi0 wepmode on wepkey 0x3f352a2149646c675e5e2abcde and ifconfig iwi0 then shows: iwi0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.10.2.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.2.255 ether 00:16:6f:4b:98:57 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect status: associated ssid fred channel 6 bssid 00:14:bf:74:d4:5e authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey UNDEF wepkey 1:104-bit txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100 However, pings from the laptop (10.10.2.20) to the AP (10.10.2.1) fail. I have wlan_wep built into the kernel. Can anybody think what I might be doing wrong? Many thanks in advance, Warren Toomey
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