Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:40:50 -0400 From: Greg Larkin <glarkin@FreeBSD.org> To: Chris Chambers <cchamb0@interchange.ubc.ca> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: WEP at home Message-ID: <48A419C2.5060400@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <3744807.12091218682997736.JavaMail.myubc2@handel.my.ubc.ca> References: <3744807.12091218682997736.JavaMail.myubc2@handel.my.ubc.ca>
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Chris Chambers wrote:
| 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
Hi Chris,
What are the contents of your /etc/resolv.conf file after the IP address
has been acquired from the DHCP server?
Regards,
Greg
- --
Greg Larkin
http://www.sourcehosting.net/
http://www.FreeBSD.org/ - The Power To Serve
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