BSD

Hello,

I am using FreeBSD on my laptop (R60) and currently it is working great, however, I am having trouble connecting to open or WEP secured networks.

I have read the FreeBSD handbook regarding this many times. That is how I found out how to connect to WPA networks. If anyone could post a brief step by step for open or WEP I would be very greatful.

WPA is easy because I can use WPA suppliment and /etc/rc.d/netif start but this doesnt seem to work for open or WEP... nothing happens.

Thanks,

Karsten

WPA isn't the problem, do you have a solution to OPEN?

kk, I guess I'll search more... and probs give the handbook another go

thanks,

do u have wep enabled in the kernel?

I add the line to enable WEP into /boot/loader.conf

Code:

wlan_wep_load="YES"

I think the problem im having is simply due to using ifconfig wrong because I cannot connect to an open network either. Only WPA lol

this is what i do for open wireless...

in /etc/rc.conf i add

Code:

ifconfig_wifi0="DHCP"

in console I do

Code:

ifconfig wifi0 down
ifconfig wifi0 bssid 00:xx:xx:xx:xx
ifconfig wifi0 up

/etc/rc.d/netif start

and it doesn't do a whole lot. Is this the right process? This is what I worked out from reading the FreeBSD Handbook many many times lol

ifconfig wifi0 authmode open