Date: Tue, 21 Dec 2004 10:44:36 +0000 From: Peter Risdon <peter@circlesquared.com> To: Scott Bennett <bennett@cs.niu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ifconfig for WLAN using WEP Message-ID: <41C7FE94.3080503@circlesquared.com> In-Reply-To: <200412201721.iBKHL1qr029588@mp.cs.niu.edu> References: <200412201721.iBKHL1qr029588@mp.cs.niu.edu>
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Scott Bennett wrote: > Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> wrote: > > >>--On Monday, December 20, 2004 02:14:20 AM -0600 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 fwe is not a wireless interface, it's ethernet over firewire. You're not really giving enough information in this post. What is your wireless card? Peter.
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