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Date:      Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:47:20 +0100
From:      "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
To:        Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WEP not working
Message-ID:  <43E77D98.2010602@gmx.de>
In-Reply-To: <200602060830.27122.fcash@ocis.net>
References:  <3cc1a1cc0602051238q58d4653y@mail.gmail.com>	<43E71686.50005@gmx.de> <200602060830.27122.fcash@ocis.net>

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It might work for you, but it sure doesn't for me. Wpa_supplicant
establishs a connection to the AP, but dhclient fails to receive an IP.
If I don't use wpa_supplicant and just type

# ifconfig ipw0 ssid myap wepkey 0x01234567890123456789012345 weptxkey 1
wepmode on
# dhclient ipw0

it works. I know what wpa_supplicant is, but for me it doesn't do what
it should. That is why I wrote my own daemon.

Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Monday 06 February 2006 01:27 am, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:
>> Dhclient does not work through wpa_supplicant when the connection has
>> been established with WEP encryption. You can hand connect without
>> wpa_supplicant and dhclient will most likely succeed.
>=20
> dhclient works just fine in conjunction with wpa_supplicant.  I find it=
 to=20
> be a lot easier to do with wpa_supplicant, as you can put all the=20
> wireless config info (ssid, channel, wep mode, wep key, etc) into a=20
> single file, and edit /etc/rc.conf to use ifconfig_ath0=3D"WPA DHCP" an=
d=20
> have the rc scripts take care of everything automatically.
>=20
> wpa_supplicant.conf support no-encryption, wep, wpa, wpa-psk, wpa-eapol=
,=20
> and a few others.
>=20
> DHCP support is separate from the wireless link support, same as DHCP=20
> support is separate from wired link support.  Once devd sees the link u=
p=20
> event from the NIC driver, it starts dhclient on that interface.  How=20
> that link up even is generated does not really matter.
>=20
>> If you wish I can send you my self-brewed daemon to automatically
>> establish connections. It doesn't support wpa, though.
>=20
> wpa_supplicant is a daemon that handle no-encryption, wep, and wpa=20
> connections, automatically for you.  And it comes free with FreeBSD 6+,=
=20
> and as a port in 5.x.
>=20


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