pccards

[Robert Fitzpatrick]

On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 15:27 +0100, Marcin Jessa wrote:

> http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html

Perfect, that was what I needed, thanks! Now I have the card working
with WEP, I still don't quite understand how to get the card to start up
on boot. I have in my /etc/rc.conf 'ifconfig_ath0="ssid WEBTENT DHCP"'
and I have the necessary modules loaded:

felipa# cat /boot/loader.conf
wlan_wep_load="YES"
wlan_tkip_load="YES"
wlan_ccmp_load="YES"
wlan_xauth_load="YES"
wlan_acl_load="YES"

Another thing is I tried the wpa_supplicant.conf method of starting the
card, but it just hangs, I have to just hit Ctrl+C after a long wait:

felipa# cat /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
    ssid="WEBTENT"
    key_mgmt=NONE
    wep_key1=<MYKEY>
    wep_tx_keyidx=1
}
felipa# wpa_supplicant -i ath0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
Trying to associate with 00:05:5d:89:c8:78 (SSID='WEBTENT' freq=2437
MHz)
Associated with 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
^CSignal 2 received - terminating
ioctl[SIOCS80211, op 20, len 7]: Can't assign requested address

If I use the following, all works great with WEP and it gets a DHCP
address even though I specified a static IP, I assume this is because I
have that specified in /etc/rc.conf:

felipa# ifconfig ath0 inet 192.168.1.30 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid
WEBTENT wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:<MYKEY>
felipa# ifconfig -v ath0 ath0:
flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        inet6 fe80::280:c8ff:fe1f:9655%ath0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
        inet 192.168.1.52 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
        ether 00:80:c8:1f:96:55
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid WEBTENT channel 6 (2437) bssid 00:05:5d:89:c8:78
        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1
        wepkey 1:104-bit powersavemode OFF powersavesleep 100 txpowmax
32
        txpower 60 rtsthreshold 2346 fragthreshold 2346 -pureg protmode
CTS -wme        roaming AUTO bintval 100

Also, I assume my D-Link access point does not support WPA, so I am
stuck with the weakness of WEP? Perhaps I'll try to setup my FreeBSD
AP :)

So, again, can someone point out how I get this to start on boot? Should
I just add the command to the /etc/rc.local?

--
Robert