From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 21:49:54 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9FB16A51F for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:49:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from strange.daemonsecurity.com (59.Red-81-33-11.staticIP.rima-tde.net [81.33.11.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD76743D62 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:49:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from norgaard@locolomo.org) Received: from [172.16.2.1] (unknown [172.16.2.1]) by strange.daemonsecurity.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6FE2E041; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 22:47:54 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <439758F9.9070307@locolomo.org> Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:49:45 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= Organization: Locolomo.ORG User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050909) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dominique Goncalves References: <7daacbbe0512071233q71e5608as8e47a975032f46f4@mail.gmail.com> <43974CEB.6080708@locolomo.org> <7daacbbe0512071335t835e72mfc0b016b89a349f9@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0512071335t835e72mfc0b016b89a349f9@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jon Drukman , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks for FBSD6 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 21:49:54 -0000 Dominique Goncalves wrote: >>>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: > > According to this documentation > http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html > this syntax is ok on 6.0, but I don't know if the order of arguments > have an importance. Yes, you're right, it works - I'm not sure of the order either. What doesn't work anymore is the "ancient" posibility of including these options in dhclient.conf However, wpa_supplicant is needed to handle encryption keys etc. And then comes the neat feature of supporting multiple networks. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2