From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 9 09:58:05 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 0D45B16A41F for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:58:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotrekk@excite.com) Received: from excite.com (nn5.excitenetwork.com [207.159.120.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B35DE43D46 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 09:58:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from piotrekk@excite.com) Received: by xprdmailfe24.nwk.excite.com (Postfix, from userid 110) id A18311E438; Tue, 9 Aug 2005 05:58:02 -0400 (EDT) To: algould@datawok.com Received: from [212.55.196.10] by xprdmailfe24.nwk.excite.com via HTTP; Tue, 09 Aug 2005 05:58:02 EST X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: ID = 0bb463cbbba7d897e04b48c342bfafd0 From: "PK" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Sender: piotrekk@excite.com X-Mailer: PHP Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20050809095802.A18311E438@xprdmailfe24.nwk.excite.com> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 05:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: piotrekk@excite.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2005 09:58:05 -0000 Is the channel correct? yes, it is, without wep works well Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless interface? no, I don't have any firewall active authmode OPEN is the problem, because ifconfig can not set to SHARED automatically or manually ! do you have authmode OPEN and you use a shared key ? I don't thonk so. --- On Mon 08/08, Andrew L. Gould < algould@datawok.com > wrote: From: Andrew L. Gould [mailto: algould@datawok.com] To: piotrekk@excite.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2005 20:46:29 -0500 Subject: Re: howto load or install wlan_wep module on freeBSD 5.4 ? On Mon, 8 Aug 2005 19:58:03 -0400 (EDT)
"PK" wrote:
>
> hi
>
> I removed the interface conf. from the cable but still doesn't work.
>
> What's very strange is authmode OPEN:
>
> # ifconfig
> ath0: flags=8843 mtu 1500
> inet 192.168.2.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
> inet6 fe80::20f:b5ff:fe26:d1c9%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> ether 00:0f:c4:12:b2:b8
> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
> status: no carrier
> ssid myssid 1:myssid
> channel -1 authmode OPEN powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100
> rtsthreshold 2312 protmode CTS
> wepmode MIXED weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:104-bit
>
> howto change it to shared ?
>
> # ifconfig ath0 authmode shared
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument

I also use a shared key; but I've never had to set the mode explicitly.

Is the channel correct?

Do you have an active firewall that could be blocking the wireless
interface?

Andrew Gould
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