Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:08:46 -0600 From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> To: Mick Walker <mwalker@codegurus.org> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop Message-ID: <41EA918E.1080609@makeworld.com> In-Reply-To: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org> References: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org>
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Mick Walker wrote: > Hi all, > I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it > is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. > However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions > in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access > point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. > Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? > If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. > > Thanks > Mick Mick, Try something like this in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid SOMESSID wepmode on wepkey 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Where SOMESSIS is the name of your WAP and where the 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the wep key (128 in this case) -- Best regards, Chris A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10c fuse by blowing first.
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