Subject: setting up persistent WEP encryption keys in NetBSD
To: None <netbsd-users@netbsd.org>
From: Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 11/26/2003 17:00:40
Hi again.

I am trying to set up a persistent WEP encryption key on my WLAN NIC
(a Lucent Technologies 802.11b silver card running firmware 8.72.1).
It looks like NetBSD 1.6.1 does not have problems storing the key in
the network card memory (at least NetBSD do not complains about this
fact, but I do not know if the key is really written to the network
card memory):

   altair# ifconfig wi0 nwkey persist:test0

But when I try to use the WEP encryption key I see the next error:

   altair# ifconfig wi0 nwkey persist
   ifconfig: SIOCS80211NWKEY: Invalid argument

What I am doing wrong?

Cheers,
Igor.

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Igor Sobrado, UK34436 - sobrado@acm.org