From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Aug 27 19:55:40 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from straylight.primelogic.com (straylight.primelogic.com [207.189.136.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17B8D37B401 for ; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:55:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from michelle@eugene.net) Received: from [192.168.1.1] (c886028-a.eugene1.or.home.com [24.14.231.140]) by straylight.primelogic.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id TAA77805; Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:56:40 -0700 (PDT) Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: michelle@mail.primelogic.com Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20010827180629.B18898@grok.com> References: <20010827180629.B18898@grok.com> Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:55:26 -0700 To: Michel Hoche-Mong From: Michelle Brownsworth Subject: Re: WEP with Orinoco WaveLan Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >i believe the problem is that the basestation wants to use a shared key >and the wi driver doesn't support that. Nope, the problem turned out to be that I was mistakenly assuming that the card retained the WEP key that was entered via Orinoco's utility on the Windows-based laptop. It doesn't. The solution was to enter the key on bootup in /etc/start_if.wi0: wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX .\\ichelle >On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 01:42:53PM -0700, Michelle Brownsworth wrote: >> I'm using an Orinoco Gold card in my laptop running 4.3-RELEASE. It >> was working fine without WEP, but when I changed it (and my SMC2655W) >> to 128-bit encryption it fails to make a connection. However, the >> same card works fine when I stick it in a Window laptop, so I know >> it's not a WEP key mismatch. I've seen some posts that seem to >> suggest that I should upgrade to 4.3-STABLE. Is it the consensus >> that upgrading will fix the WEP problem? >> >> .\\ichelle >> --------------------- >> Michelle Brownsworth >> System Administrator >> PrimeLogic Communications >> http://www.primelogic.com >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message