From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 16 16:08:40 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD71E16A4CE for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:08:40 +0000 (GMT) Received: from makeworld.com (makeworld.com [198.92.228.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5827E43D1D for ; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:08:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from racerx@makeworld.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.com [127.0.0.1]) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAEC060F3; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:08:39 -0600 (CST) Received: from makeworld.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (makeworld.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 43751-09; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:08:37 -0600 (CST) Received: from [198.92.228.34] (racerx.makeworld.com [198.92.228.34]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by makeworld.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6148B60F0; Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:08:37 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <41EA918E.1080609@makeworld.com> Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 10:08:46 -0600 From: Chris User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050101) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mick Walker References: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org> In-Reply-To: <1105879001.2431.16.camel@codegurus.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by ClamAV 0.75.1/amavisd-new-2.2.1 (20041222) at makeworld.com - Isn't it ironic cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Set up of Wireless on laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 16:08:40 -0000 Mick Walker wrote: > Hi all, > I have bought myself a wireless network card (Linksys WPC11 VER 3), it > is detected by the kernel and it shows up in ifconfig as wi0. > However I cant seem to get it to work, I have followed the instructions > in the hand book, it works fine if I disable wep on the wireless access > point, however with it enabled it doesn't work at all. > Could someone give me a brief outline of how to get wep working? > If you need any other data, I would be happy to help. > > Thanks > Mick Mick, Try something like this in /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.xxx ssid SOMESSID wepmode on wepkey 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Where SOMESSIS is the name of your WAP and where the 0xXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX is the wep key (128 in this case) -- Best regards, Chris A $300.00 picture tube will protect a 10c fuse by blowing first.