From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 14 03:24:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1348A1065698 for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:24:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca) Received: from mr5.mail-relay.ubc.ca (mr5.mail-relay.ubc.ca [137.82.45.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E4F258FC1E for ; Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:24:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca) X-Ubc-Received: from mr5.mail-relay.ubc.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id 57903114C7 for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mta1.interchange.ubc.ca (mta1.interchange.ubc.ca [142.103.145.69]) by mr5.mail-relay.ubc.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from handel.my.ubc.ca (handel.my.ubc.ca [137.82.115.14]) by smtp.interchange.ubc.ca (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003)) with ESMTP id <0K5K00KPDLTHZ7@smtp.interchange.ubc.ca> for questions@FreeBSD.org; Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:18 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 20:03:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Chambers To: questions@FreeBSD.org Message-id: <3744807.12091218682997736.JavaMail.myubc2@handel.my.ubc.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: uPortal WEB email client 3.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-UBC-Scanned: Sophos PureMessage 5.4.1.325704, Antispam-Engine: 2.6.0.325393, Antispam-Data: 2008.8.14.24919 X-UBC-Relayed: Relayed through mail-relay.ubc.ca X-PerlMx-Spam: Probability=7%, Report=BODY_SIZE_2000_2999 0, BODY_SIZE_5000_LESS 0, ECARD_KNOWN_DOMAINS 0, OEM_SOFTWARE_X1 0, WEBMAIL_SOURCE 0, WEBMAIL_XMAILER 0, __C230066_P5 0, __CT 0, __CTE 0, __CT_TEXT_PLAIN 0, __HAS_MSGID 0, __HAS_X_MAILER 0, __LINES_OF_YELLING 0, __MIME_TEXT_ONLY 0, __MIME_VERSION 0, __OEM_SOFTWARE_1 0, __SANE_MSGID 0 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Flag: No Cc: Subject: WEP at home 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: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:24:46 -0000 Dear FreeBSD, I am hoping that I can get your help connecting to a wireless WEP network connection. The connection is in my home. First off, I would like to say that I HAVE read the man pages, the handbook and "The Complete FreeBSD." Everything up until now has been pretty straight forward. (I was able to figure out how to pipe my screen output into a file on my non automounting dos partition). There must be something basic that I'm missing or not understanding. I'm running v. 6.3, standard installion. Here is what I am typing, the output and the contents of my conf files. ifconfig ath0 up scan SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS Laureen 00:1a:c4:09:65:61 6 54M 18:0 100 EPS /boot/loader.conf wlan_wep_load="YES" /etc/rc.conf # -- sysinstall generated deltas -- # Wed Aug 13 00:27:32 2008 # Created: Wed Aug 13 00:27:32 2008 # Enable network daemons for user convenience. # Please make all changes to this file, not to /etc/defaults/rc.conf. # This file now contains just the overrides from /etc/defaults/rc.conf keymap="us.iso" usbd_enable="YES" #WIRELESS ifconfig_ath0="authmode open wepmode mixed DHCP" /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant ctrl_interface_group=wheel network={ ssid="Laureen" scan_ssid=1 key_mgmt=NONE wep_tx_keyidx=1 wep_key1=1013304023 } wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf Trying to associate with 00:1a:c4:09:65:61 (SSID='Laureen' freq=2437 MHz) Associated with 00:1a:c4:09:65:61 CTRL-EVENT-CONNECTED - Connection to 00:1a:c4:09:65:61 completed (auth) CTRL-EVENT-TERMINATING - signal 2 received At this point I thought I was good to go. When I attemped to ping the outside world (yahoo.com), I was told that ping could not resolve the address. At first I thought I maybe needed to run namedb, but my reading told me that I only need it if I'm planning on serving DNS info. netstat -r Routing tables Internet: Destination Gateway Flags Refs Use Netif Expire link#2 UC 0 0 ath0 localhost localhost UH 0 4 lo0 ... etc. At this point you're probably thinking that I have to wrong key or something. In Windows XP the key works and Win tells me that the link is WEP, OPEN, created with DHCP. I've connected to this network before by doing something very similar, only I can't remember what I did. Then I had to reinstall FreeBSD because I didn't give it enough space on my harddrive. I've tried slightly different configurations without success. Thank you a million! Chris Chambers