Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:21:01 +1000 From: Gregory Bond <gnb@itga.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: wi(4), hostap mode and WEP Message-ID: <200208190121.LAA28645@lightning.itga.com.au>
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I have a DLINK 520 PCI card on a FreeBSD server (running 4.6-stable from around 20 July) and a DLink 650 PCMCIA card in a WinMe laptop. I can get these systems to communicate in Ad-Hoc mode with and without WEP, and in hostap mode on the FreeBSD end without WEP, but I cannot seem to get the combo of hostap and WEP working. Whenever I set an encryption key, the laptop cannot associate, but as soon as I disable WEP on both ends, the laptop finds an association almost immediately. I'm using hex keys at both ends, and even using silly but unambiguous keys like "0x1111...." I can't get this to work with hostap. I've also tried with 64 and 128 bit WEP keys. Nor can I change wi0 from hostap to adhoc mode - "ifconfig wi0 adhoc" returns ENODEV: "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured". Going from adhoc to hostap mode works fine. This may or may not be related. Has anyone else got this working? Is it expected to work (the man page seems to suggest it should) or is WEP and hostap not supported? (Yes, I know WEP is not very secure, but my main hope is to stop random people leeching my cable link!) wi0: <Intersil Prism2.5> mem 0xfbfe0000-0xfbfe0fff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 wi0: 802.11 address: 00:05:5d:5b:c4:c8 wi0: using RF:PRISM2.5 MAC:ISL3874A(Mini-PCI) wi0: Intersil Firmware: Primary 1.00.05, Station 1.03.04 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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