Re: wpa_supplicant and WEP....

From: James Snow (snow+freebsd-current_at_teardrop.org)
Date: 09/30/05

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To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org>

    On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 09:56:21AM -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
    >
    > I have gotten wpa_supplicant to work fine for WPA-PSK and open sites...
    > but I would like it to work with WEP as well. it appears to associate
    > with a WEP site no matter what WEP key I give it. But whether the key
    > is correct or not... I can not get a response from my DHCP server.
    >
    > My wpa_supplicant entry:
    ...
    > wep_tx_keyidx=0

    I would try dropping this line. I use wpa_supplicant to connect to a
    number of different wireless networks and for the WEP-only ones I've
    never needed anything more than:

    ssid=...
    key_mgmt=NONE
    wep_key0=...

    -Snow

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