On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:42:35PM -0700, Bruce J.A. Nourish wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:36:22AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> > I have just committed my port of FreeBSD's Atheros chipset driver,
> > ath(4). The driver supports 802.11a/b/g multimode cards made by
> > manufacturers such as D-Link and Linksys. Virtually every 802.11a radio
> > manufactured today contains the Atheros chipset.
> 
> Wohoo! Thanks!
> 
> I have a couple of questions:
> 
>  * When I run "wiconfig ath0", I get:
> 
> wiconfig: SIOCGWAVELAN: Invalid argument
> NIC serial number:			[  ]
> Station name:				[ telstar.bjan.net ]
> SSID for IBSS creation:			[ mordor ]
> Current netname (SSID):			[  ]
> Desired netname (SSID):			[ mordor ]
> Current BSSID:				[ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
> Channel list:				[ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ]
> IBSS channel:				[ 1 ]
> Current channel:			[ 65535 ]
> Comms quality/signal/noise:		[ 0 0 0 ]
> Promiscuous mode:			[ Off ]
> Port type:				[ 1 ]
> MAC address:				[ 00:0c:41:16:a7:95 ]
> TX rate (selection):			[ 0 ]
> TX rate (actual speed):			[ 0 ]
> Beacon Interval (current) [msec]:	[ 0 ]
> Maximum data length:			[ 2312 ]
> RTS/CTS handshake threshold:		[ 2312 ]

I will look into it.

>  * I want to join a WEP encrypted network. I think the commands to
>    bring the interface up should look like this:
> 
>    # ifconfig ath0 nwid mordor
>    # ifconfig ath0 nwkey <hex key>
>    # ifconfig ath0 up
>    # dhclient ath0
> 
>    Firstly, is this generally correct? This is my first time with 
>    802.11 on BSD.
> 
>    Secondly, ifconfig rejects my 26-digit hex key, presumably for bieng
>    too long. Where should I look to fix this?

I have fixed this bug. Do a cvs update.

Dave

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