Documentation on wireless

[Marc Fonvieille]

On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 01:31:02AM +0100, Frank Quinn wrote:
> Hi guys/girls,
> 
> First of all, nice work on the documentation - nobody likes doing it! Just a little thing though - I'm pretty new to freebsd (but quite familiar with linux and solaris) so I looked to the handbook on how to configure my wireless settings (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html) and I just noticed one oversight - with the line outlined below:
> 
> ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 01234567
> DHCP"Which didn't work for me, as the 01234567 part seemed to get
> padded out to 104 bit (I'm assuming 128) instead of 40 ( I'm assuming
> 64) according to ifconfig. Based on this, I would assume this would
> work for 128-bit WEP but for my little 64-bit WEP network, I needed to
> use the following:ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1
> wepkey 1:0x01234567 DHCP"

The line you are talking about is really specific as stated in the
previous sentence: 'If you have a single AirPort base station you can
setup access with something like:

ifconfig_ath0="authmode shared wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 01234567
DHCP" '
Then 3 sentences later you are pointed to the "29.3.3.1.4 WEP" section.
This section gives more details.

-- 
Marc