Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 17:33:17 -0500 From: "Jordy Dickinson" <praesentium@gmail.com> To: "Brooks Davis" <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@fnop.net>, FreeBSD-Net <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting WPA2-PSK Message-ID: <ca416ff40812191433k7025c644hb4ca80b811f1e95f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20081219164617.GC50722@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <ca416ff40812190619i327fc582g5d30b0049cb342b@mail.gmail.com> <BE30D816-399E-4430-A8B5-48FD0D948523@fnop.net> <20081219164617.GC50722@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 11:46 AM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 03:04:55PM +0000, Rui Paulo wrote: > > > > On 19 Dec 2008, at 14:19, Jordy Dickinson wrote: > > > >> Hey, I've never used a mailing list before, so forgive me if I'm not > doing > >> this right. > >> > >> I'm trying to set up my network card, but I keep getting this error > >> message. > >> I type in this: > >> > >> ifconfig wi0 authmode wpa > >>> > >> > >> And I get this: > >> > >> ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_xauth module by hand for now. > >>> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument > >>> > >> > >> Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong? > >> > > > > You're probably running a custom kernel without the wlan_xauth module > built > > in. Either load it as a module or compile it in your kernel. > > > > You may also want to use wpa_supplicant instead. > > More specifically, setting "authmode wpa" with ifconfig will always be > wrong (unless perhaps someday someone adds a suplicant to the kernel). > If you want WPA to work, you must run wpa_supplicant. > > -- Brooks So how do I use wpa_supplicant? I've installed it on my machine already, and the man pages are gibberish to me. Also, is there a way to make the mailing list stop sending me emails that I'm not part of?
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