wep on ath not working in 6.0

[George Hartzell]

Eric Anderson writes:
 > 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..

You could also use wpa_supplicant to handle the wep'ing.  Here's a
sample /etc/wpa_supplicant file:

ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
network={
	ssid="NETWORKNAMEHERE"
	key_mgmt=NONE
	wep_key0="abcde"
	wep_key1=0102030405
	wep_key2="1234567890123"
	wep_tx_keyidx=0
	priority=5
}

that ought to work.

I *think* that you can just add WPA to the ifconfig_ath0 line and do
away with /etc/start_if.ath0.

g.