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Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...
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Yes I have. I also added it to the loader.conf file, the kernel 
configuration file, done a buildkernel etc. but no luck.

# /boot/loader.conf
wlan_wep_load="YES"

# /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC
device wlan_wep

But still no luck. What am I forgetting?

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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dinesh Nair" <dinesh@alphaque.com>
To: "Kiffin Gish" <kiffin@gish.demon.nl>
Cc: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 27, 2005 12:06
Subject: Re: Wireless woes: upgrade 5.4 to 6.0, wi0, etc...


>
>
> On 12/27/05 18:22 Kiffin Gish said the following:
>> Since I upgraded from FreeBSD 5.4 to 6.0, I cannot for the life of me get
>> the wi0-interface to work at all (real bummer).
>>
>> During boot I get the following error message:
>>
>>     "ieee80211_load_module: load the wlan_wep module by hand for now"
>>
>> If afterwards I try to fiddle around with ifconfig wepmode on ..., I get 
>> the
>> following error message:
>>
>>     "ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Operation not permitted"
>
> have you tried kldload wlan_wep ? :)
>
> -- 
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