On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 02:44:49PM -0600, Swift Griggs wrote: > On Wed, 20 Apr 2016, g...@duzan.org wrote: > > Do you have wpa_supplicant configured and running? See the man page, > > https://wiki.netbsd.org/tutorials/how_to_use_wpa_supplicant/ , and/or > > /usr/share/examples/wpa_supplicant/*. > > IIRC, you don't strictly need wpa_supplicant to do WEP (though it does > work). You'd at least have the option to simply use the ifconfig(8) for > it. Example: > > ifconfig ipw0 inet 192.168.0.20 netmask 0xffffff00 nwid my_net nwkey > 0x01020304050607080910111213 > > Just FYI. > > -Swift > > <rant> > > (Let me be clear this rant isn't directed at anyone on the list nor does > it that germane to the question.) > > PS: Note in the content above the total lack of "Duuuhhh, why do you want > to use WEP. OMG OMG OMG it's insecure. My friends at Def Con will laugh at > you. Theo De Raadt will haze you. You'll never be able to smoke with us > behind the gym again. etc..". That gets soooo old, and there are still > legit reasons/scenarios to use WEP, as well as a whole constellation of
I guess it's the same situation as someone using telnet where they should be using ssh ... P.S. What does 'haze' you mean? Blow smoke in your face? -- The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. -- Malcolm X
