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Old 11th June 2008
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Unhappy FreeBSD's Ifconfig for WEP

I am new to BSD and I would like very much to run, use, and get good with FreeBSD as well as OpenBSD. But my problem is connecting to the internet!!! My problem is kinda like this..... I cant fully configure my wireless card to connect to the internet... When I connect in Linux... I just type in the WEP key and Im connected!! But I cant do it with ifconfig when using BSD!!! I have tried "ifconfig ral0 up", "Ifconfig ral0 nwid xxxxxxx nwkey xxxxxxxx" and got nothing!!! Wut am I not doing or doing wrong!!???

If there is a post thats for this I welcome it, but if it does not help I will let you know...

Thanks!!!

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In most cases, you'll find the information if you do man <your card>. For example, with the Intel 2100 or whatever it was, I would do man ipw (I think--I don't have that machine anymore) and it would give the information.

For example, here is an entry from the ipw man page.

Join a specific BSS network with 40-bit WEP encryption:

ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 ssid my_net \
wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 weptxkey 1

So, there's your syntax.
Youve probably realized it already, but rather than the generic eth0 wlan0, FreeBSD will use something based on the particular card, such as fxp0, xl0, etc.

Yup, I just checked man ral and it has several examples in there too.

Were you using one of the Linux GUI tools, such as NetworkManager? It is a bit different, (although perhaps Gnome or KDE in FreeBSD also has such tools, I don't know.)

It's always good to learn the command line way to do it though. For example, in Fedora, NetworkManager frequently gets broken.
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I recommend using wpa_supplicant for wep and roaming as well as wpa. Simply create your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf file and put ifconfig_ral0="WPA DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf. Here's a basic one.
Quote:
# allow frontend to be used by all in 'wheel' group
ctrl_interface=/var/run/wpa_supplicant
ctrl_interface_group=wheel
ap_scan=1

# Access any available open network -- roaming
network={
key_mgmt=NONE
}
# straight from man wpa_supplicant.conf for wep
network={
ssid="example"
scan_ssid=1
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_tx_keyidx=0
wep_key0=42FEEDDEAFBABEDEAFBEEFAA55
}
If you desperately need a gui for your wireless needs, install sysutils/desktopbsd-tools. One of the tools is a kde tray applet for wired, wep, or open networks. For WPA, you must set up your network in wpa_supplicant.conf. There is a proposal for SoC to port NetworkManager to FreeBSD, but hal has issues.
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If there's no problem with your AP, or with your WEP key (length, format, etc), or other matters (confirm that other machines can associate with the AP and go out onto the net), then connecting a client via a single line in /etc/rc.conf should be straightforward:

On a client machine running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1, associated with an OpenBSD 4.3-current AP handing out IP addreses via DHCP:
Code:
ifconfig_ral0="ssid <your SSID here> wepmode on wepkey <your WEP key here> weptxkey 1 DHCP"
ifconfig output:
Code:
[root@blah ~]# ifconfig ral0
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:16:b6:9c:55:41
        inet 172.16.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 172.16.0.255
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (OFDM/54Mbps)
        status: associated
        ssid xxxxxxxxxxxx channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11g) bssid 00:16:b6:9c:58:ba
        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:104-bit txpower 50
        bmiss 7 scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250
        roam:rssi11g 7 roam:rate11g 5 protmode CTS
[root@blah ~]#
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ok...I havent tryed "weptxkey 1 DHCP", I will try that, and I get it I will let you all know.. thanks!! Also, I wanted to know the same for OpenBSD because its "ifconfig" is kinda set up different.... any way... I wonder if this will connect even with a 64/128-bit ASCII wep key?
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yeah, I wanna try ifconfig first though...
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I wonder if this will connect even with a 64/128-bit ASCII wep key?
The ral driver can handle both 64 and 104-bit WEP keys. As always, the man page is your friend:

ral(4)

On an OpenBSD client, you'd do:
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up media autoselect mode 11g chan 1 nwid <Your SSID> nwkey <Your hex or ascii key here>
dhcp NONE NONE NONE
ral(4)

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so I put "\dhcp NONE NONE NONE" on the same line as the ifconfig command?
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No. That was a typo. You need two lines.
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ok thanks!!! .... do you think its better to install both with the FTP option?? or with my situation, is that impossible?
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I tried it on BSD Anywhere, and it was sayin "active", but I couldnt connect to a site on firefox!!! please help!!!
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ok thanks!!! .... do you think its better to install both with the FTP option?? or with my situation, is that impossible?
I don't understand what this means.


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I tried it on BSD Anywhere, and it was sayin "active", but I couldnt connect to a site on firefox!!! please help!!!
Your first test should be to find out if you can ping any host on your network. Try to ping your router, or another host on your network, before trying to ping an internet host.

Also, posting the output of ifconfig ral0 and netstat -rn will help.
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when you start the FreeBSD installation, it asks if you want to install from the ftp site, or cd/dvd. it has other options... but that was what I was talkin bout...
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It will depend on how fast your connection to the net is. All the install methods are fine, but most users here will probably chime in and say you'd better get the release .iso files.

In any case, what you're asking should be the topic of a separate, new thread, not this one. Or you can search the forums and look for one that's close to what you're asking.
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ok... so which bsd would be best if I wanted to do stuff like surf the net, play with Beryl, use Fluxbox, and stuff like that? just asking
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