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 other "insecure" or "obsolete" tech, IMHO. Yes. It's crackable. We ALL KNOW that. Sometimes people do seemingly unwise things for very good reasons that are hard to guess. I wonder why folks even respond with a trite non-answer just to publicly derail the persons question and personally critique their reasoning with their silly-mad 31337 s3cur1ty h0xx0ring skillz? Is there a secret fund for 15 year old security consultants to save us from ourselves that nobody told me about ? Do they really think the question bearer is going to take that onboard as useful info ? Notice how they always act like you couldn't have possibly already known and intentionally disregarded the security 101 "best practice" fact they spout off ? Perhaps this was the announcement: https://xkcd.com/386/ People do this all the time when I talk about IRIX. They will go off on some security rant before they even know if I've got the machine on a _network_ as if they have a prayer of educating me on IRIX, when most of them have never even seen it. "Oh, noes! It's insecure? Well, I'd better just throw all this hardware away, then." By the same token this is why I don't run OpenBSD. I'll probably catch hell for saying this, but security is **NOT** my #1 concern. Doing real work is, and over-securing your resources lowers the resource's accessibility. Plus, I'd like my machine to not run like a complete dog for the "sake" of security. Sorry for the overt negativity toward security maniacs, but I'm betting I'm not the only one who has felt this way. Please forgive me, I'm a working sysadmin with real operational requirements for what I do. </rant>
