Wireless Problems

[Chris]

On Wednesday 17 December 2003 10:04 am, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 23:25:22 +1100 (EST)
> > From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Darryl=20Barlow?= <darrylb_au44 at yahoo.com.au>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> >
> > Sorry to post about a problem with a desktop machine
> > but I may have more luck here given the problem is a
> > cardbus one.  I have installed FreeBSD on a Desktop
> > Machine with a TI 1410 PCI Cardbus Bridge and an Avaya
> > Silver Wireless Network Card.
> >
> > The card connects perfectly to a D-Link Access Point
> > in Debian and even in Windows XP.  However, in FreeBSD
> > there is "no carrier" no matter what I seem to try.
> > Troubleshooting help would be much appreciated.
> >
> >  Device seems to come up with:
> >
> >  ifconfig wi0 inet 192.168.4.8 netmask 255.255.255.0
> >  ssid HOME wepmode ON
> >  wepkey 1234567890
>
> Exactly how are you specifying the WEP key? Is it an ASCII string or a
> hex value? If it's a hex value, it needs to be entered as 0xnnnnnnn. If
> it's an ASCII string, it is entered as a quoted string, but there have
> been many issues with interoperability of  ASCII strings and it is
> better from both an operational and security perspective to use a random
> hexadecimal numeric key. (I use /dev/random to generate my WEP keys.)

Could you please show me an example of a 128 bit wep?

Best regards,

Chris