dragon lab » BSD http://lab.dragonbard.com draconic musings in cyberspace Thu, 02 Feb 2012 04:00:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 PC-BSD and WEP http://lab.dragonbard.com/2010/02/01/pc-bsd-and-wep/ http://lab.dragonbard.com/2010/02/01/pc-bsd-and-wep/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:05:10 +0000 dragonbard http://lab.dragonbard.com/?p=164 So, I’ve been playing with PC-BSD on my Acer Aspire One 532h, and I was having problems with WiFi.  Turns out that my use of WEP with a shared key instead of open causes many problems with the automatic setup of wireless by various operating systems, Windows Vista and 7 included.  Turns out the answer is to manually configure it for all the operating systems

For PC-BSD I had to remove the lagg0 interface and manually configure the wlan0 interface for direct connect rather than using wpa_supplicant.

And yes, I am posting this from PC-BSD.

The magic lines in rc.conf

wlans_ath0=”wlan0″
ifconfig_wlan0=”ssid <yourSSID> wepmode on authmode SHARED deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:0x<yourkey> up DHCP”

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