From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Jul 30 15:38:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9FD637B400 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:38:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53BE043E31 for ; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id GQF37091; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:38:22 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C1E5D03; Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:38:22 -0700 (PDT) To: Emanuel Haupt Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wireless card In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:12:08 +0200." <20020731001208.650a9366.haupt@outof.ch> Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 15:38:22 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020730223822.32C1E5D03@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 00:12:08 +0200 > From: Emanuel Haupt > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > hi, > > i am a proud owner of the following wireless card: > wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A, Firmware: 1.4 variant 9 > > in the city where i live is at several places public wireless network available. > how can i look up these networks? i was reading the wicontrol manual carefully. > after all it looks to me like there are a lot of informations that you just have > to _know_ like the network name, station name... > > any help would be gratefully appreciated If the network is "open" and un-encrypted, you really should not need anything. The default is to connect to whatever local net is available. If the network name is blank, you will connect to anything. If you want to connect to a specific net, you must specify the network name. For WEP encrypted nets you must enter a transmission key and tell the card to run encryption using that key. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message