Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 12:35:26 +0100 From: Fabian Keil <freebsd-listen@fabiankeil.de> To: shih@math.jussieu.fr Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FB 5.3 with wireless connection Message-ID: <20050316123526.259df11e@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20050316105837.GA27361@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20050316105837.GA27361@math.jussieu.fr>
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Albert Shih <shih@math.jussieu.fr> wrote: > With a FB 5.3-P5 how can I configure a wifi card with 128 bits key wep ? > > My wifi card is > > wi0: <Dell TrueMobile 1150 Series PC Card> at port 0xe000-0xe03f irq 5 function 0 config 1 on pccard1 > > When I use > > root@io# ifconfig wi0 wepkey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx up > ifconfig: string too long > root@io# ifconfig wi0 weptxkey xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx up > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument The recommended way is to specify the wepkey in hexadecimal digits. ifconfig wi0 wepkey 0x1deadc0dedeadc0dedeadc0de1 man ifconfig: > wepkey key|index:key > For IEEE 802.11 wireless interfaces, set the selected WEP key. > If an index is not given, key 1 is set. A WEP key will be either > 5 or 13 characters (40 or 104 bits) depending of the local net- > work and the capabilities of the adaptor. It may be specified > either as a plain string or as a string of hexadecimal digits > proceeded by `0x'. For maximum portability, hex keys are recom- > mended; the mapping of text keys to WEP encryption is usually > driver-specific. In particular, the Windows drivers do this map- > ping differently to FreeBSD. A key may be cleared by setting it > to `-'. If WEP is supported then there are at least four keys. > Some adaptors support more than four keys. If that is the case, > then the first four keys (1-4) will be the standard temporary > keys and any others will be adaptor specific keys such as perma- > nent keys stored in NVRAM. Regards Fabian -- http://www.fabiankeil.de
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