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Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant question
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On Saturday 01 September 2007 17:28:51 Pollywog wrote:

> Would one use a WEP key in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf  ?
> Mine looks like this and I have a laptop with built-in Ralink rt2500
>
> ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
> ctrl_interface_group=wheel
>
> network={
>         ssid="myssid"
>         key_mgmt=WPA-PSK
>         psk=12345979374andalotorletterstoo
> }

Different wireless protocol. View the handbook section on all the different 
authentication/encryption schemes there are. It's very detailed, not just for 
FreeBSD:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html

-- 
Mel

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