Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:45:12 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Erik_Paulsen_Sk=E5lerud?= <erik@pentadon.com> Cc: "'M. Warner Losh'" <imp@bsdimp.com>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: your mail Message-ID: <20030306104512.A27325@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <002b01c2e407$37e195b0$0a00a8c0@mediaringen.com>; from erik@pentadon.com on Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:38:32PM %2B0100 References: <20030306.101859.103176084.imp@bsdimp.com> <002b01c2e407$37e195b0$0a00a8c0@mediaringen.com>
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--fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 06:38:32PM +0100, Erik Paulsen Sk=E5lerud wrote: > I have the following card: >=20 > wi0 at port 0x240-0x27f irq 7 slot 0 on pccard0 > wi0: 802.11 address: 00:40:05:ae:e3:12 > wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3873 > wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.07, Station 1.03.05 >=20 > And I use this ifconfig to set it up: >=20 > /sbin/ifconfig wi0 mediaopt hostap channel 10 stationname firewall ssid > trollbakken wepmode on \ > wepkey 1:ZHHE7NE0$E0 wepkey 2:tl2rnVG5$3W wepkey 3:Hd67WAv1$z6 wepkey > 4:lwhH$os1tZB4f media DS/11Mbps >=20 > This works just fine, but suddenly I saw this in ifconfig: >=20 > channel 10 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 >=20 >=20 > I was thinking, "authmode OPEN"? What does this do? >=20 > I looked it up in the ifconfig manpage, and didnt get any smarter. So I > tried to play around with it. I tried to set it to "channel 10 authmode > shared". >=20 > And boom, card dead. Channel is now suddenly locked at channel 0, and I c= ant > get it back to the setup I had no matter what I do (except rebooting). Is > this a bug? That's a bug. The short answer is until EAP becomes an option, don't mess with authmode. Shared mostly just increases the vulnerability of your WEP key. There's a writeup in the Cisco AP help at (scroll down to "Accept Authentication Types"): http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/779/smbiz/prodconfig/help/eag/air/ap3xx/Se= tWEP_Keys.shm.htm -- Brooks --=20 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 --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+Z5c3XY6L6fI4GtQRAqm2AJ4nV6+r6fTex2bq6szYPf5E2si0BACgt4Ly 8yzuql4tUbs+Iyt4rRFSTA4= =OonS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --fdj2RfSjLxBAspz7-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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