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Date:      Thu, 20 Sep 2007 08:43:57 +0200
From:      "Heiko Wundram (Beenic)" <wundram@beenic.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        C Thala <cthala@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: switching between WAPs
Message-ID:  <200709200843.58410.wundram@beenic.net>
In-Reply-To: <77647f500709191947k2fc9098aq12f068a91cf6941@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <77647f500709191947k2fc9098aq12f068a91cf6941@mail.gmail.com>

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Am Donnerstag 20 September 2007 04:47:03 schrieb C Thala:
> That OS from the NorthWestern US seems to keep a list of WAPs and will
> detect whenever you are in the vicinity of one and use the available
> one. How can I get FreeBSD to do the same?

Try setting up a wpa_supplicant configuration (and putting "WPA DHCP" in=20
rc.conf); that does the proximity-switching for you (and does so for me,=20
happily).

I don't really know whether wpa_supplicant works with non-security-enabled=
=20
(i.e. non-WEP and non-WPA) wireless networks, but I guess there's a switch =
to=20
tell it to do so.

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