ifconfig for WLAN using WEP

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Mon Dec 20 00:08:03 PST 2004


On Monday, 20 December 2004 at  1:54:06 -0600, Scott Bennett wrote:
>      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.

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This thread is off topic.  Please move to FreeBSD-questions.
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Greg
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