Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 17:47:20 +0100 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Freddie Cash <fcash@ocis.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WEP not working Message-ID: <43E77D98.2010602@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <200602060830.27122.fcash@ocis.net> References: <3cc1a1cc0602051238q58d4653y@mail.gmail.com> <43E71686.50005@gmx.de> <200602060830.27122.fcash@ocis.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] It might work for you, but it sure doesn't for me. Wpa_supplicant establishs a connection to the AP, but dhclient fails to receive an IP. If I don't use wpa_supplicant and just type # ifconfig ipw0 ssid myap wepkey 0x01234567890123456789012345 weptxkey 1 wepmode on # dhclient ipw0 it works. I know what wpa_supplicant is, but for me it doesn't do what it should. That is why I wrote my own daemon. Freddie Cash wrote: > On Monday 06 February 2006 01:27 am, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> Dhclient does not work through wpa_supplicant when the connection has >> been established with WEP encryption. You can hand connect without >> wpa_supplicant and dhclient will most likely succeed. > > dhclient works just fine in conjunction with wpa_supplicant. I find it to > be a lot easier to do with wpa_supplicant, as you can put all the > wireless config info (ssid, channel, wep mode, wep key, etc) into a > single file, and edit /etc/rc.conf to use ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" and > have the rc scripts take care of everything automatically. > > wpa_supplicant.conf support no-encryption, wep, wpa, wpa-psk, wpa-eapol, > and a few others. > > DHCP support is separate from the wireless link support, same as DHCP > support is separate from wired link support. Once devd sees the link up > event from the NIC driver, it starts dhclient on that interface. How > that link up even is generated does not really matter. > >> If you wish I can send you my self-brewed daemon to automatically >> establish connections. It doesn't support wpa, though. > > wpa_supplicant is a daemon that handle no-encryption, wep, and wpa > connections, automatically for you. And it comes free with FreeBSD 6+, > and as a port in 5.x. > [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFD532gfMDIb41/+S0RAhyrAJ9XOw4v3Ivgz17dsA6F4LBoxuaP2ACfVPmo eObYmme+Wpio/9X4BJd23qA= =m7RY -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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