Re: WEP in Lucent silver card

[Clarence <c5666305@hkstar.com>]

Hi,

the wicontrol command I used are as followings

1. wicontrol -e 1
2. wicontrol -k "hello" -v 1

Am I missing somehting or misunderstanding the command ?  I am not sure.

Clarence

On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Christoph Schneeberger wrote:

> As far as I can see, you don't have set the WEP keys, so IMHO this won't work
> at all. For me it worked (with 2.9 or 3.0 not sure) very fine.
> 
> The syntax for setting the WEP keys with wicontrol is a bit confusing, but
> before you can see them in the wicontrol output it won't work.
> 
> It would help if you post your wicontrol command lines...
> 
> Cheers,
> Christoph Schneeberger
> 
> 
> Clarence wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just test the WEP option of wicontrol between openbsd-3.0 and
> > openbsd-current.  The two system are both i386 and similar cannot
> > communicate when the WEP is on.  I had tested that win98 and OpenBSD-3.0
> > can communicate with each other even the WEP is on.  Is there a problem of
> > openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current when WEP is on ?  Here is my wicontrol
> > output of openbsd-3.0 and openbsd-current. Any idea ?  Thanks.
> >
> > Clarence
> >
> > ======= OpenBSD-3.0 ==========
> > NIC serial number:                      [ 01UT49412530 ]
> > Station name:                           [ private_base ]
> > SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ IBSS ]
> > Current netname (SSID):                 [ private_network ]
> > Desired netname (SSID):                 [ private_network ]
> > Current BSSID:                          [ 02:02:2d:40:67:ea ]
> > Channel list:                           [ 8191 ]
> > IBSS channel:                           [ 3 ]
> > Current channel:                        [ 3 ]
> > Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
> > Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
> > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
> > MAC address:                            [ 00:02:2d:40:67:ea ]
> > TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
> > TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
> > Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
> > RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
> > Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
> > Microwave oven robustness:              [ 0 ]
> > Roaming mode(1:firm,3:disable):         [ ]
> > Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
> > Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
> > Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
> > Card info:                              [ Lucent, Firmware 7.28 variant 1 ]
> > WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
> > Authentication type
> > (1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ ]
> > TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
> > Encryption keys:                        [ hello ][  ][  ][  ]
> > ===========================================================
> >
> > ======== openbsd-current ===========
> > NIC serial number:                      [ 01UT49412491 ]
> > Station name:                           [ ibm380xd ]
> > SSID for IBSS creation:                 [ IBSS ]
> > Current netname (SSID):                 [ private_network ]
> > Desired netname (SSID):                 [ private_network ]
> > Current BSSID:                          [ 02:02:2d:40:67:ea ]
> > Channel list:                           [ 8191 ]
> > IBSS channel:                           [ 3 ]
> > Current channel:                        [ 3 ]
> > Comms quality/signal/noise:             [ 0 27 27 ]
> > Promiscuous mode:                       [ Off ]
> > Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
> > MAC address:                            [ 00:02:2d:40:67:c3 ]
> > TX rate (selection):                    [ 3 ]
> > TX rate (actual speed):                 [ 2 ]
> > Maximum data length:                    [ 2304 ]
> > RTS/CTS handshake threshold:            [ 2347 ]
> > Create IBSS:                            [ On ]
> > Microwave oven robustness:              [ 0 ]
> > Roaming mode(1:firm,3:disable):         [ ]
> > Access point density:                   [ 1 ]
> > Power Mgmt (1=on, 0=off):               [ 0 ]
> > Max sleep time:                         [ 100 ]
> > Card info:                              [ Lucent, Firmware 7.28 variant 1 ]
> > WEP encryption:                         [ On ]
> > Authentication type
> > (1=OpenSys, 2=Shared Key):              [ ]
> > TX encryption key:                      [ 1 ]
> > Encryption keys:                        [ hello ][  ][  ][  ]
> > ========================================================