Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:40:37 +0300 From: Alexander Karenin <kaim@bestcom.ru> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless pc card on FreeBSD 6.0 Message-ID: <1132623637.39881.8.camel@ara-host.kaim.ru> In-Reply-To: <20051121204656.192D816A432@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20051121204656.192D816A432@hub.freebsd.org>
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> I have my wireless card associating with my access point using the > following command from the doc at: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ath&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD > +5.3-RELEASE > > # ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid WEBTENT > # ifconfig > ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55 > media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps) > status: associated > ssid WEBTENT channel 6 bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 > authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 32 protmode CTS bintval 100 > > But cannot browse the network at all. I also have a wired connection to > the network on the laptop and cannot ping the address assigned to the > wireless card unless the wired connection is connected, why would this > be? > > Also, of course, as you can see above, I need to get WEP going, but not > sure how to specify the WEP key in ASCII or determine the HEX needed > from the ASCII key, can someone suggest how this is done? And I'd like > to get it to use DHCP, how would I do this? > > -- > Robert As far as I know, you should have hostapd daemon running and configured to get some WEP or PSK, or WEP-PSK sec working. Try to search in google on how to do that, or wait for others to help you. I'm now trying to make my WEP-PSK working - and can only offer you to read message Vol. 113 issue 11 from this list (Wednesday of November) - mesg. 31: FreeBSD 6, hostap, ral0 (Christer Solskogen)
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