Re: ifconfig wepkey on 6.0

Fabian Keil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.questions,gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <20060212140437.0bdce4f5@localhost>
"kalin mintchev" <[email protected]> wrote:

>   according to the man page of ifconfig in 6.0 the wepkey should be 5
> or 13 characters. the wep key i always had is way longer than 13
> characters 128 bit - one key only..  so when i try to set it up to
> the wi0 i get:
> 
> # ifconfig wi0 wepkey 1:0xWEPKEY128BITENCRYPTIONBLAHBLA
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument

Did you look in /var/log/messages?

It probably tells you to load wlan_wep.

Fabian
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