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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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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=20
> 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.
>=20
> Here is some info about my current setup:   =20
> - The card works with WEP disabled =20
> - My WEP key is entered in hex =20
> - I am trying to attach to a Netgear MA-102 Access
> Point which   only supports  40 bit hex keys =20
> - wicontrol looks like it is doing everything properly
> (correct   keys, ssid,  etc.) =20
> - ifconfig looks OK too, except "authmode" is NONE and
> I cannot   change it to  anything else   =20

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   =20
> #!/bin/sh =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 11 =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n IansWireless =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -c 0 -p 0 =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0x1111111111 -v 1 =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -T 1 =20
> /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1   =20

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.   =20

That's a side effect of the ASCII support.  I just so happens that in
ASCII '3' =3D=3D 0x33 and if you choose a key that is printable in ASCII, it
gets printed in ASCII.

-- 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

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