From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 18:21:00 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C838A16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:21:00 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dexter.starfire.mn.org (starfire.skypoint.net [66.93.17.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4841143D46 for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:21:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from john@dexter.starfire.mn.org) Received: (from john@localhost) by dexter.starfire.mn.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) id j0GIKuq23409; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:20:56 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from john) Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 12:20:56 -0600 From: John To: Mick Walker Message-ID: <20050116122056.C23356@starfire.mn.org> References: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org>; from mwalker@codegurus.org on Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:36:41PM +0000 cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 18:21:00 -0000 On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 12:36:41PM +0000, 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. You need to issue a command like ifconfig wi0 ssid "whatever it is" wepmode on wepkey 0xsomehexstring then wait about 15 seconds (the docs say 5, but that's too short in my experience) and then dhcpclient wi0 unless you are hardcoding the IP address, in which case, include that on the ifconig line with "inet oct1.oct2.oct3.oct4 netmask oct5.oct6.oct7.oct8" in addition to the other parameters above. I don't know how to use Wep pass phrases, 'cause I don't use them. I think the pass phrases just provides data to munge to generate the keys. I use it - I love it - I'll be glad to help any way I can. -- John Lind john@starfire.MN.ORG