From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 5 07:27:36 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: doc@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 600B816A400 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 07:27:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from abigail.blackend.org (ns0.blackend.org [82.227.222.164]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D615413C458 for ; Sat, 5 May 2007 07:27:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marc@blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (gothic.blackend.org [192.168.1.203]) by abigail.blackend.org (8.13.4/8.13.3) with ESMTP id l457RX7f019054; Sat, 5 May 2007 09:27:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@abigail.blackend.org) Received: from gothic.blackend.org (localhost.blackend.org [127.0.0.1]) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l457RXai001039; Sat, 5 May 2007 09:27:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc@gothic.blackend.org) Received: (from marc@localhost) by gothic.blackend.org (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l457RRhB001038; Sat, 5 May 2007 09:27:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marc) Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 09:27:27 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille To: Frank Quinn Message-ID: <20070505072727.GA985@gothic.blackend.org> References: <000601c78eac$aa1dfe80$0401a8c0@ktulu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000601c78eac$aa1dfe80$0401a8c0@ktulu> X-Useless-Header: blackend.org X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Documentation on wireless X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 07:27:36 -0000 On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:31:02AM +0100, Frank Quinn wrote: > Hi guys/girls, > > First of all, nice work on the documentation - nobody likes doing it! Just a little thing though - I'm pretty new to freebsd (but quite familiar with linux and solaris) so I looked to the handbook on how to configure my wireless settings (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html) and I just noticed one oversight - with the line outlined below: > > ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 01234567 > DHCP"Which didn't work for me, as the 01234567 part seemed to get > padded out to 104 bit (I'm assuming 128) instead of 40 ( I'm assuming > 64) according to ifconfig. Based on this, I would assume this would > work for 128-bit WEP but for my little 64-bit WEP network, I needed to > use the following:ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 > wepkey 1:0x01234567 DHCP" The line you are talking about is really specific as stated in the previous sentence: 'If you have a single AirPort base station you can setup access with something like: ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 01234567 DHCP" ' Then 3 sentences later you are pointed to the "29.3.3.1.4 WEP" section. This section gives more details. -- Marc