From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 20 08:14:21 2004 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 6A2C316A4CE for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:14:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (mp.cs.niu.edu [131.156.145.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B6EF43D4C for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:14:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bennett@cs.niu.edu) Received: from mp.cs.niu.edu (bennett@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mp.cs.niu.edu (8.13.2/8.13.2/d) with ESMTP id iBK8EKOl020639 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:14:20 -0600 (CST) Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 02:14:20 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Bennett Message-Id: <200412200814.iBK8EK2j020638@mp.cs.niu.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP 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: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 08:14:21 -0000 I've been asked in freebsd-newbies to move this to freebsd-questions, so I'll start with my original message content after this line. I'm trying to get my FreeBSD 5.2.1 system to connect to our household wireless net. The router and the only other computer in the household are using WEP, so my FreeBSD machine needs to do so as well. Unfortunately, whenever I add a WEP-related argument (e.g., wep, wepkey, wepmode) to the ifconfig command, as in ifconfig fwe0 wep I get ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument I'm currently running the GENERIC kernel, so perhaps I'm missing some config option. Although I've installed many other UNIX systems, this is my first attempt to get a FreeBSD system working, and thus I consider myself a newbie and am posting this problem to this list. If someone thinks I should have posted it to freebsd-questions, please let me know. I'm signed up there, too, so I can repost this over there if that would be more appropriate. If anyone can give me a clue how to get this thing working, I'd really appreciate it. The version of XFree86 that came on the CDROM for 5.2.1 is old and lacks the driver for the Mobility Radeon 9800 graphics card, so I am using the system with no graphics (and thus no windowing other than the old 4.3BSD window(1) command), which is a major drag. I need the net access to ftp the latest-and-greatest version of X11 or XFree86 to make the machine really usable. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ********************************************************************** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--------------------------------------------------------------------* * "A well regulated and disciplined militia, is at all times a good * * objection to the introduction of that bane of all free governments * * -- a standing army." * * -- Gov. John Hancock, New York Journal, 28 January 1790 * **********************************************************************