From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 22 01:40:22 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 786F116A41F for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kaim@bestcom.ru) Received: from relay.bestcom.ru (relay.bestcom.ru [217.72.144.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 829D343D8D for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kaim@bestcom.ru) Received: from ara-host (kaim.ru [217.10.40.16] (may be forged)) (authenticated bits=0) by relay.bestcom.ru (8.13.1/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jAM1e9K8015515 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:40:09 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from kaim@bestcom.ru) From: Alexander Karenin To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20051121204656.192D816A432@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051121204656.192D816A432@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:40:37 +0300 Message-Id: <1132623637.39881.8.camel@ara-host.kaim.ru> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.4.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.87/1182/Mon Nov 21 22:43:47 2005 on relay.bestcom.ru X-Virus-Status: Clean Subject: Re: Wireless pc card on FreeBSD 6.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 01:40:22 -0000 > I have my wireless card associating with my access point using the > following command from the doc at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD > +5.3-RELEASE > > # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) > status: associated > ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100 > > But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection to > the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to the > wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would this > be? > > Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but not > sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX needed > from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And I'd like > to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this? > > -- > Robert As far as I know, you should have hostapd daemon running and configured to get some WEP or PSK, or WEP-PSK sec working. Try to search in google on how to do that, or wait for others to help you. I'm now trying to make my WEP-PSK working - and can only offer you to read message Vol. 113 issue 11 from this list (Wednesday of November) - mesg. 31: FreeBSD 6, hostap, ral0 (Christer Solskogen)