Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 19:55:26 -0700 From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net> To: Michel Hoche-Mong <hoche@grok.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WEP with Orinoco WaveLan Message-ID: <a05001957b7b0b75abfa6@[192.168.1.1]> In-Reply-To: <20010827180629.B18898@grok.com> References: <a0500193cb7adbb6822c4@[192.168.1.1]> <20010827180629.B18898@grok.com>
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>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
>>
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