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Date:      Sat, 23 Jun 2001 19:31:20 -0500
From:      Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com>
To:        mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SMC2632W wireless card for $99.
Message-ID:  <20010624003120.809.qmail@camelot.bitart.com>
In-Reply-To: <20010623195823.A2762@pir.net>
References:  <20010623193757.C23183@pir.net> <20010623234925.787.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> <20010623195823.A2762@pir.net>

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Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> probably said:
> > I am just 'fighting' with those 2 items... Both do 128bit WEP under
> > Windows. Under FreeBSD (3.4 release, device wi) I can not get WEP
> > to work. I can only get a link if I disable WEP on the base station
> > (independent of the settings on the laptop!). (And before someone
> > asks:
>
> Strange, I've got my SMC base station working fine with lucent and
> aironet client cards doing 128bit WEP.
>
> > Yes, I did enter the key by hand and did not use the 'passphrase'  
> > feature on the base station. Firmaware is the latest available).
>
> That's all I did to get the base station working. Do you have a
> different client you can test with ?
>
Sadly I don't. I wonder though: is 'wicontrol -T 1' working for you?  
If I try that, I get some ioctl error message. Another thing I tried: I  
configured the card in Windows, then booted to FreeBSD (nothing in my  
boot setup configures the card), and it still didn't work.

Gerd

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