On Wednesday, February 5, 2014 22:15 CET, Alexey Suslikov 
<alexey.susli...@gmail.com> wrote: 
 
> Sebastian Reitenbach <sebastia <at> l00-bugdead-prods.de> writes:
> > Anyways, at work I specify the nwid and the wpakey like this:
> > 
> > ifconfig urtw0 nwid MYID wpakey SECRETKEY up
> > 
> > but status keeps telling me: no network
> > however, the manual page tells me that WPA and WPA2 should work.
> 
> from ifconfig(8):
> 
> wpakey passphrase | hexkey
>        Set the WPA key and enable WPA.  The key can be given using
>        either a passphrase or a full length hex key, starting with 0x.
>        If a passphrase is used the nwid option must be set prior to
>        specifying the wpakey option, since ifconfig will hash the nwid
>        along with the passphrase to create the key.
> 

stupid /me. I was fairly sure that I also tried it manually, setting the
different values with different commands. I tried it now with a clean boot
in the correct order and it just works.
Thanks for cluebatting ;)

The only thing I still wonder is why all networks I see from a scan
show 143 dB network strength.

Sebastian

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