I've been asked in freebsd-newbies to move this to freebsd-questions, so I'll start with my original message content after this line. I'm trying to get my FreeBSD 5.2.1 system to connect to our household wireless net. The router and the only other computer in the household are using WEP, so my FreeBSD machine needs to do so as well. Unfortunately, whenever I add a WEP-related argument (e.g., wep, wepkey, wepmode) to the ifconfig command, as in
ifconfig fwe0 wep
I get
ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
This was posted recently here by Daan Vreeken.
You can't combine "use DHCP" and "use this SSID" in /etc/rc.conf . To do both, you need to create a startup script that sets the interface options (ssid / wep key / etc) and then just set /etc/rc.conf to use DHCP.
In /etc/rc.conf put this : ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
Then place this in a file called /etc/start_if.ath0 :
ifconfig ath0 ssid "some network" wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890123
--- end of /etc/start_if.ath0 ---
The RC scripts will now first execute /etc/start_if.ath0 on boot, and then try
to get an ip address on the interface with dhclient.
Obviously, your file would be /etc/start_if.fwe0.
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