Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 14:50:38 -0500 From: "Paul Williams" <pwillia@insightbb.com> To: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: racerx@makeworld.com Subject: re: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT Message-ID: <20050216195036.C1E7443D54@mx1.FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20050216120057.19D3E16A4D4@hub.freebsd.org>
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>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:16:58 -0600 >From: Chris <racerx@makeworld.com> >Subject: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT >To: FreeBSD - Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> >Message-ID: <421290FA.40108@makeworld.com> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > >Hiya folks - > > I'm just starting to follow the CURRENT branch and popped that latest >snapshot on my laptop. Under 5.3 my NetGear MA401 worked with just >adding something like this to /etc/rc.conf: > >ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX >wepmode on wepkey 0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" > > And everything came up just dandy. Has something changed? > >-- >Best regards, >Chris > >For every action, there is an equal and opposite >criticism. Chris, The wireless interface changed recently, you will need to manually load the wlan_wep kernel module and add 'weptxkey 1' to your ifconfig line above. Those changes were enough to get my wireless back up. Paul
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