ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

From: Scott Bennett (bennett_at_cs.niu.edu)
Date: 12/19/04

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    Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 02:39:34 -0600 (CST)
To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org

         I'm trying to get my FreeBSD 5.2.1 system to connect to our household
    wireless net. The router and the only other computer in the household are
    using WEP, so my FreeBSD machine needs to do so as well. Unfortunately,
    whenever I add a WEP-related argument (e.g., wep, wepkey, wepmode) to the
    ifconfig command, as in

            ifconfig fwe0 wep

    I get

            ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument

    I'm currently running the GENERIC kernel, so perhaps I'm missing some
    config option.
         Although I've installed many other UNIX systems, this is my first attempt
    to get a FreeBSD system working, and thus I consider myself a newbie and am
    posting this problem to this list. If someone thinks I should have posted
    it to freebsd-questions, please let me know. I'm signed up there, too, so
    I can repost this over there if that would be more appropriate.
         If anyone can give me a clue how to get this thing working, I'd really
    appreciate it. The version of XFree86 that came on the CDROM for 5.2.1 is
    old and lacks the driver for the Mobility Radeon 9800 graphics card, so I
    am using the system with no graphics (and thus no windowing other than the
    old 4.3BSD window(1) command), which is a major drag. I need the net access
    to ftp the latest-and-greatest version of X11 or XFree86 to make the machine
    really usable.

                                      Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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