Ok so I have done some tests.
Was fiddling a little bit with wep/no wep options on my router, lots of
$ sudo sh /etc/netstart on the client ... Then got the same fatal errors
plus a new error :
ifconfig: SIOCS80211CHANNEL: invalid argument
Oki so now looks like you don't like the channel I am using (channel 3).
$ sudo ifconfig wpi0 chan 3
ifconfig: SIOCS80211CHANNEL: invalid argument
$ sudo ifconfig wpi0 chan 4
Ok it likes chan 4 ...
$ sudo ifconfig wpi0 chan 3
$ echo $?
0
Ok no problems with chan 3 anymore.
After some more fiddling I think I found a different behavior with wep
keys handling in 4.4 (or maybe my PC is just fucked up, or myself ;) ).
I was actually using several wep keys on my router (Linksys WRT54G shit)
So in order to work on 4.3 I had to use this notation according to
man(8)ifconfig :
n:k1,k2,k3,k4 where n specifies which key to use and k1 through k4 the
keys (passwords).
On my router I had the 3rd key in use so my /etc/hostname.wpi0 file
looked like that :
dhcp NONE NONE mode 11g chan 3 nwid myid nkey 3:password,P455W0RD,bla,blabla
Which did not work anymore with 4.4.
So what I have found is if you always keep n=1 in 4.4, whether you use
n=2 or n=3 on the router ... It always works ...
Can someone confirm that or am I crazy ? ( In the latter case I won't
bother you anymore ;) ).
Thank you.
