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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