Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:42:08 -0800 (PST) From: scott renna <flexble2547@yahoo.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP Message-ID: <20041220174208.25828.qmail@web53602.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <200412200814.iBK8EK2j020638@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott, I just went through this myself. Take a look at the FreeBSD handbook at www.freebsd.org/handbook. This is in the section for advanced networking, don't have the link handy just now. Additionally, you can do a man ifconfig my ifconfig looks like this: ifconfig_ath0="inet x.x.x.x netmask x.x.x.x ssid XXXX wepmode on channel 1 wepkey 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX" hope that helps. scott --- Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> wrote: > 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 * > ********************************************************************** > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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