Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:51:23 HST From: knowtree@aloha.com To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: ifconfig, wifi, and DHCP Message-ID: <200803170751.m2H7pMQW020344@yoda.pixi.com>
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Usually my Lucent gold wifi card (wi0:) comes up fine when I start my laptop (Dell Latitude D830, FreeBSD 7.0), but once in a while it doesn't, and sometimes I forget to plug it in. Sometimes it does not join my home network. I do ifconfig wi0: down, then ifconfig wi0: up, and it joins my network but it does not pull an IP address from my access point. I looked at the man pages for ifconfig and wi and found nothing about how this is done. Here is a hint. When I installed my system and chose wifi networking the installer wrote this in my rc.conf: ifconfig_wi0="dhcp ssid Oz" Yes, my network's name is Oz. No, I am not the wizard. Can I use this quoted phrase when I invoke ifconfig manually? I see ssid documented on the man page for ifconfig, but not dhcp. Gary Dunn Open Slate Project
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