ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

[Scott Bennett]

     Tamas <tamas at bazmag.hu> wrote:
>> 	ifconfig fwe0 wep
>
>This should be a firewire device. Are you sure that you're connecting 
>through an ethernet-over-firewire box to your household network?
>I'm not.

     The machine is a Dell Inspiron XPS.  It has both a multi-speed Ethernet
card and a wireless card.  The latter is apparently hooked to the FireWire
bus.  Don't ask me why.  I didn't design it; I just bought the box.
>
>What is the output of `ifconfig` on your PC?

     Sigh.  I was afraid someone would ask that because a) it doesn't seem
particularly relevant and b) I have to write everything down by hand, reboot
to Windows XP, log in to another UNIX system via PuTTY, type in everything
I've written down, then include it into my reply to you and the list.  If
anyone else wants to see more stuff, please minimize what you ask for as
much as you can.
     That said, here is the ifconfig output preceded by some related lines
extracted from dmesg output.

Script started on Mon Dec 20 00:51:54 2004
hellas 101 %dmesg|grep fire
firewire0: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
sbp0: <SBP-2/SCSI over FireWire> on firewire0
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
hellas 102 %dmesg|grep fwe
fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 3a:4f:c0:fe:0c:c1
hellas 103 %ifconfig
bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
	inet6 fe80::211:43ff:fe5d:cd2c:bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
	inet 0.0.0.0 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 255.255.255.255
	ether 00:11:43:5d:cd:2c
	media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
	status: no carrier
fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
	ether 3a:4f:c0:4e:0c:c1
	ch 1 dma -1
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384
	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
hellas 104 %exit

Script done on Mon Dec 20 00:52:52 2004


                                  Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG
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