Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 11:07:44 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Ian Cartwright <ian351c@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netgear MA401 and WEP Message-ID: <20010920110744.B23690@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20010920051742.25986.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>; from ian351c@yahoo.com on Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:17:42PM -0700 References: <20010920051742.25986.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:17:42PM -0700, Ian Cartwright wrote: > I have a Netgear MA-401 that I have been unable to get > working under FreeBSD. The card works fine under > Windows 2000. The card works great in FreeBSD without > WEP. When I enable WEP I lose my connection to my > access devica (a Netgear ME102). I have scoured the > archives, with no luck. I've tried -STABLE for the > last few weeks, following freebsd-mobile in some hope > of finding someone with a similar issue. I have tried > wicontrol, ifconfig, setting via the command line, > setting in rc.conf, setting in pcccard.conf, and > setting in start_if.wi0, all with no luck. > > Here is some info about my current setup: > - The card works with WEP disabled > - My WEP key is entered in hex > - I am trying to attach to a Netgear MA-102 Access > Point which only supports 40 bit hex keys > - wicontrol looks like it is doing everything properly > (correct keys, ssid, etc.) > - ifconfig looks OK too, except "authmode" is NONE and > I cannot change it to anything else That's OK though I should really get around to documenting it. I don't know how to change the authmode on hermes and Prism II chips so I don't support it. > Here is a copy of my start_if.wi0 > #!/bin/sh > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 11 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n IansWireless > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -c 0 -p 0 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0x1111111111 -v 1 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -T 1 > /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1 Assuming you're running a recent stable, how about trying: ifconfig wi0 ssid IansWireless wepkey 1:0x1111111111 wep after a clean boot. Portions of the above definatly aren't valid. If that doesn't work I have no idea. > Also, I have noticed some strange behavior when > setting keys. If I set the 40 bit WEP key to all 3's > then do a wicontrol -i wi0 to report the keys, it will > show the key as '33333' (as in a text string instead > of hex). But that may or may not be part of this. That's a side effect of the ASCII support. I just so happens that in ASCII '3' == 0x33 and if you choose a key that is printable in ASCII, it gets printed in ASCII. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7qjBvXY6L6fI4GtQRAu5RAKCaPFTjdxfGaQDjwYdIILivCmMdkwCgkDJ9 7QNkLEAvZr0zNXKvTwGWPpY= =z03k -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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