Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 22:17:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Ian Cartwright <ian351c@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Netgear MA401 and WEP Message-ID: <20010920051742.25986.qmail@web14510.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello eveybody, BTW: I am posting this from Yahoo because either @home is blocking mail from freebsd.org or vice versa; sorry for the garbled formatting... Anyway, I've posted a couple timed before with no replies. But now that 4.4-R is out maybe there is time for someone to take alook at this... I have a Netgear MA-401 that I have been unable to get working under FreeBSD. The card works fine under Windows 2000. The card works great in FreeBSD without WEP. When I enable WEP I lose my connection to my access devica (a Netgear ME102). I have scoured the archives, with no luck. I've tried -STABLE for the last few weeks, following freebsd-mobile in some hope of finding someone with a similar issue. I have tried wicontrol, ifconfig, setting via the command line, setting in rc.conf, setting in pcccard.conf, and setting in start_if.wi0, all with no luck. Here is some info about my current setup: - The card works with WEP disabled - My WEP key is entered in hex - I am trying to attach to a Netgear MA-102 Access Point which only supports 40 bit hex keys - wicontrol looks like it is doing everything properly (correct keys, ssid, etc.) - ifconfig looks OK too, except "authmode" is NONE and I cannot change it to anything else Here is a copy of my start_if.wi0 #!/bin/sh /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -t 11 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -n IansWireless /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -c 0 -p 0 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0x1111111111 -v 1 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -T 1 /usr/sbin/wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1 Also, I have noticed some strange behavior when setting keys. If I set the 40 bit WEP key to all 3's then do a wicontrol -i wi0 to report the keys, it will show the key as '33333' (as in a text string instead of hex). But that may or may not be part of this. Cheers, Ian __________________________________________________ Terrorist Attacks on U.S. - How can you help? Donate cash, emergency relief information http://dailynews.yahoo.com/fc/US/Emergency_Information/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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