Re: how to set WEP key? (4.8-RELEASE)

Guy Middleton <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 08:06:02PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:21:10 -0400
> > From: Guy Middleton <[email protected]>
> > Sender: [email protected]
> > 
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> > Is there a canonical place to set the WEP encryption key for wireless devices?
> > 
> > I am using 4.8-RELEASE on an IBM Thinkpad T21.  I can't find any obvious place
> > to specify it in pccard.conf or rc.conf.  Do I need to make local changes to
> > pccard_ether?
> 
> It is normally put into /etc/start_if.wi0. Here is my file for use at
> home:
> ifconfig wi0 192.168.168.4 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig wi0 wepmode on wepkey 0x0123456789abcdef0123456789 ssid babcom

Aha.  I knew it was something simple.  :-)

Thanks.

 -Guy
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