Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:58:19 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks for FBSD6 Message-ID: <43974CEB.6080708@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0512071233q71e5608as8e47a975032f46f4@mail.gmail.com> References: <dn7el7$6dr$1@sea.gmane.org> <7daacbbe0512071233q71e5608as8e47a975032f46f4@mail.gmail.com>
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Dominique Goncalves wrote:
>>basically the meat of the script looks like:
>>
>>ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network"
>>dhclient ath0
>>
>>
>>if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to
>>duplicate that, that would be cool. i played around with it for a while
>>but never got it to work without my custom script.
>
> You can use in /etc/rc.conf:
>
> ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"
That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to
config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:
wpa_suplicant_enable="YES"
ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
and create wpa_supplicant.conf:
network={
ssid="MyWireless"
mode="11g"
}
The neat thing is that you can configure multiple networks and
wpa_supplicant will try them in order.
Note that dhclient was replaced with the new OpenBSD implementation in
FBSD6, and wpa_supplicant introduced to handle association with wireless
networks.
Cheers, Erik
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