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Date:      Tue, 06 Sep 2005 08:56:05 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "Carsten Zimmermann" <carp@hacksocke.de>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 6-Beta3: WEP stopped working (wlap_wep.ko loaded) 
Message-ID:  <20050906155605.D92B05D07@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 06 Sep 2005 14:31:10 %2B0200." <56518.80.171.46.37.1126009892.squirrel@www.aegisnet.biz> 

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> Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 14:31:10 +0200 (CEST)
> From: "Carsten Zimmermann" <carp@hacksocke.de>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
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> Hello -
> 
> I have recently upgraded to FreeBSD6-BETA3 via cvsup. I had been
> running a fairly new 5-STABLE before. Because I was never lucky
> to get the installed miniPCI card in my Dell Inspiron 1150 to fly
> with ndiswrapper, I thought I shall give FBSD 6 a try.
> 
> Unfortunately, with the overhauling of the wlan framework, my
> Orinoco Gold PCMCIA card, which worked perfectly fine with the
> wi(4) driver, now stopped working with WEP.
> 
> `ifconfig wi0` shows that the card is associated to my AP, all values
> are set properly (ssid, wepmode and -key) and the wlan_wep.ko module
> is loaded. What am I missing here?

One change in V6. You must explicitly specify the key to use. Key 1 is
no longer defaulted to.

ifconfig wepmode on ssid "SSID" weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0xYOUR_KEY
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634



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