Dear Edmond,
Thank you.
I am no longer at the site of the said network. I will try your suggestion
when I am back to the said network in the future.
Sincerely,
Xianwen
On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 11:51 PM, Edmond <edmonddan...@gmx.us> wrote:
> Hi Xianwen Chen,
>
> > An open WEP network is a network that > does not require
> > password or key.
>
> I'm quite sure a Open-Key WEP connection is different from a Open Network
> (unprotected), since a Open WEP, despite not requesting authentication (as
> opposed to Shared-Key WEP), still holds a hexadecimal WEP key, which is
> required for data encryption after connection. If your network is truly
> Open WEP, then in my experience, wpa_supplicant needs that key in order to
> successfully attach to the network. So , in addition to what Scole Mail
> said, if you happened to find out you need a WEP key for real, you could
> make use of a similar configuration in /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf:
>
>
> network={
> ssid="xxxxx"
> key_mgmt=NONE
> wep_key0=$hex_key #(10 characters)
> wep_tx_keyidx=0
> priority=x
> }
>
> For Shared-Key WEP, simply add :
>
> auth_alg=SHARED
>
> And then try connecting:
>
> wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
>
> You can also avoid using wpa_supplicant at all:
>
>
> ifconfig $interface ssid xxxxxx nwkey $wep_key
>
>
>
> Best whishes
>
>
> On 1 February 2018 22:34:48 CET, "Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)" <
> xianwen.c...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Dear Dave,
>> Thank you. An open WEP network is a network that does not require
>> password or key.
>> Sincerely,
>> Xianwen
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 6:34 PM, David Young <dyo...@pobox.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 11:25:21AM +0000, Chen, Xianwen (陈贤文) wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dear NetBSD users,
>>>>
>>>> I am having trouble connecting NetBSD to an open WEP wireless network,
>>>> called "ks-guest". Because my Android mobile phone is able to connect
>>>> to "ks-guest", the network is functioning.
>>>>
>>>
>>> What do you mean by an "open WEP" network? Seems like any WEP network
>>> should have a key, but you're not configuring the interface with any
>>> key.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>> --
>>> David Young
>>> dyo...@pobox.com Urbana, IL (217) 721-9981
>>>
>>
>>
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