Re: wep on ath not working in 6.0

Ross Adams Lippert wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm using an atheros card with freeBSD 6.0.  I'm having trouble making wep work.
>(I'm not subscribed to freebsd-mobile, btw)
>
>The /etc/start_if.ath0 file says
>  ifconfig ath0 ssid "name" wepmode on wepkey 0x12345....
>and my /etc/rc.conf says
>  ifconfig_ath0="inet 192.168.1.4 netmask 255.255.255.0"
>  defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
>I'm getting "no route to host" messages when I try to ping the router.
>If I disable wep then everything works, but I'd rather know how to fix
>this problem.  This worked just as it is on freebsd 5.3.
>
>I have wlan_wep loaded as shown here
>  squiggy# kldstat -v | egrep -e 'wlan|ath'
>                27 ath_hal
>                42 ath_rate
>                43 pci/if_ath
>                44 cardbus/if_ath
>                218 wlan_wep
>                219 wlan
>
>I did not see anything on the support pages on freebsd.org to indicate
>that there was no known problem.
>  
>

Did you set the 'weptxkey 1' option also?  I can't tell, since there is 
a '....' there..

Eric



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Eric Anderson        Sr. Systems Administrator        Centaur Technology
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