Re: wi-fi problem

sekol wrote: 
Hi,

Access Point is configured with authmode shared with 64-bit ascii wepkey.
I have FreeBSD 6, loaded wlan_wep module.
in rc.conf:
ifconfig_ral0="DHCP"

When i try:
ifconfig ral0 ssid name authmode shared channel 13 wemode on \
weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x1234567890

in /var/log/messages i get:

ral0: ieee80211_crypto_newkey: no h/w support for cipher WEP, falling back to s/w
ral0: ieee80211_crypto_setkey: WEP keyix 0 flags 0x13 mac 00:14:85:16:d2:11 rsc 0 tsc 0 len 5
<snip> 
ral0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
      inet6 fe80::214:85ff:fe16:d211%ral0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
      ether 00:14:85:16:d2:11
      media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
      status: no carrier
      ssid name channel 13
      authmode SHARED privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit

      txpowmax 100 protmode CTS bintval 100


and still "no carrier" :-(

i've had /issues/ with certain cards (prism and atheros at least) that don't like being "jerked" around. with those i have to set one or 2 options at a time. try setting ssid and channel, then run ifconfig to see if it's at least associated. you don't have MAC filtering turned on in the access point do you (assuming this is a retail "network in a box")? if so then it won't associate.
you also stated that you're using an ascii key? why then are you specifying it in hex with ifconfig? ditch the "0x". this won't keep it from associating, but it certainly won't work the way you want.

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