wlan_wep(4)

wlan_wep4

Wep crypto support for 802.11 devices

Usage

device wlan_wep

Overview

The wlan_wep module handles the WEP cryptographic requirements of the 802.11 protocol. It does encapsulation and decapsulation of WEP-encoded 802.11 frames and optionally calculates the WEP cipher. The wlan_wep module is an 802.11 cryptographic plugin module for use by the wlan(4) module. This module is automatically loaded if a WEP key is configured with ifconfig(8). Should the underlying network device not be capable of doing the WEP calculations in hardware, the wlan_wep module will do the work.

Releases

49 releases since FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE; the text changed 33 times.

  1. 6.0–6.3
  2. 6.4
  3. 7.0
  4. 7.1
  5. 7.2
  6. 7.3
  7. 7.4
  8. 8.0
  9. 8.1
  10. 8.2
  11. 8.3
  12. 8.4
  13. 9.0
  14. 9.1
  15. 9.2
  16. 9.3
  17. 10.0
  18. 10.1
  19. 10.2
  20. 10.3
  21. 10.4
  22. 11.0
  23. 11.1
  24. 11.2
  25. 11.3
  26. 11.4
  27. 12.0
  28. 12.1
  29. 12.2
  30. 12.3
  31. 12.4
  32. 13.0–13.2
  33. 13.3–14.5
  34. 15.0–16.0

Standards

More information can be found in the IEEE 802.11 Standard.

History

The wlan_wep driver first appeared in FreeBSD 6.0.

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