Date: Sat, 5 May 2007 09:27:27 +0200 From: Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> To: Frank Quinn <snesreviews@ntlworld.com> Cc: doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Documentation on wireless Message-ID: <20070505072727.GA985@gothic.blackend.org> In-Reply-To: <000601c78eac$aa1dfe80$0401a8c0@ktulu> References: <000601c78eac$aa1dfe80$0401a8c0@ktulu>
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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
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