On Wed, December 28, 2005 7:19 pm, Marcus Tenes wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to install 3.8 on my iBook from the bootable cd. I'm using > a Netgear MA111 wireless card for my network interface. It's > recognized by OpenBSD as wi0, and I select it as my the interface I'd > like to configure. Our internet connection is shared by Airport using > 128-bit WEP. When the installer asks me for the IPv4 address for wi0, > I chose dhcp. Then it starts polling the following: > > DHCP DISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 2 > DHCP DISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 > DHCP DISCOVER on wi0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 > > etc. I assume that means the wireless card is trying to find a > network to join? This went on for a long time so I hit ctrl-c and tried > > ifconfig wi0 nwid MyNetwork nwkey 0xmyreallylonghexkey > > It returned saying "Numerical argument out of domain." Does this mean > 128-bit WEP is not supported from the install disc or do I need to do > something else to get my network going for the install? I appreciate > any help. > > Marcus > >
>From wi(4): "wi is capable of using both 40-bit (5 characters or 10 hexadecimal digits) or 104-bit (13 characters or 26 hexadecimal digits) keys." -- nick
