re: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT

>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 18:16:58 -0600
>From: Chris <racerx_at_makeworld.com>
>Subject: MA401 worked w/5.3 - No go under CURRENT
>To: FreeBSD - Current <freebsd-current_at_freebsd.org>
>Message-ID: <421290FA.40108_at_makeworld.com>
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>Hiya folks -
>
>	I'm just starting to follow the CURRENT branch and popped that
latest 
>snapshot on my laptop. Under 5.3 my NetGear MA401 worked with just 
>adding something like this to /etc/rc.conf:
>
>ifconfig_wi0="inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid XXX 
>wepmode on wepkey 0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
>
>	And everything came up just dandy. Has something changed?
>
>-- 
>Best regards,
>Chris
>
>For every action, there is an equal and opposite
>criticism.

Chris,
The wireless interface changed recently, you will need to manually load the
wlan_wep kernel module and add 'weptxkey 1' to your ifconfig line above.
Those changes were enough to get my wireless back up.

Paul