From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 8 23:58:11 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 15C2A16A41F for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:58:11 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotrekk@excite.com) Received: from excite.com (nn3.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.57]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73CA643D49 for ; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 23:58:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotrekk@excite.com) Received: by xprdmailfe22.nwk.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id CD6E829995; Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) To: algould@datawok.com Received: from [84.73.115.251] by xprdmailfe22.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Mon, 08 Aug 2005 19:58:03 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = 16eb98aa6edb040391a74a6066f0c889 From: "PK" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: piotrekk@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20050808235803.CD6E829995@xprdmailfe22.nwk.excite.com> Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: piotrekk@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 23:58:11 -0000 hi I removed the interface conf. from the cable but still doesn't work. What's very strange is authmode OPEN: # ifconfig ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255 inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26:d1c9%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:0f:c4:12:b2:b8 media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps) status: no carrier ssid myssid 1:myssid channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit howto change it to shared ? # ifconfig ath0 authmode shared ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument --- On Mon 08/08, Andrew L. Gould < algould@datawok.com > wrote: From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto: algould@datawok.com] To: piotrekk@excite.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 16:43:02 -0500 Subject: Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ? On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 17:19:54 -0400 (EDT)
"PK" wrote:
>
> yes, but cable is disabled at the moment

Do you mean that the cable is unplugged or that you removed the
interface configuration? Unplugging the cable does not change or
remove the interface configuration.

Reconfigure your cabled interface to 10.0.0.1, then test your wireless
interface again.

>
> I think there is a problem with DS/1Mbps
> this driver seems to allow by default the transfer rate: 1 Mbps
>
> my wlan access point accept only 54Mbps !
>
> I think I must change to 54Mbps using ifconfig
>
> Do you know, howto change this ?
>
> # ifconfig ath0 media DS/54Mbps
> ifconfig: unknown media subtype: DS/54Mbps
>

I think this is handled automatically by default. (I could be very
wrong.)
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