Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2005 01:08:56 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: 6.0 and wireless setup - documentation? Message-ID: <20051111010856.4778aa3a.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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Hello! After upgrading my laptop (Thinkpad T41) to FreeBSD 6.0, I was ready to try out the new wireless functionality. My wireless router uses WPA, and I use dhcp on my network. I checked the handbook, the faq and did a search on Google for "freebsd wireless wpa". 1) Where are the documentation? There are man pages for ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf (BTW, that man page fails to tell you that the file belongs in /etc), but there are no "how to set up all necessary files and config for wireless with WPA" articles anywhere (that I could find). 2) It seems that we are missing some infrastructure bits (or documentation) in /etc/rc.conf. I can use 'ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"' in /etc/rc.conf to tell it to start dhclient for that interface, which is fine. But how do I tell the system to start wpa_supplicant? As far as I could find out, there are no "wpa_" knobs in /etc/defaults/rc.conf and the /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant script is missing documentation. How is this supposed to work, actually? I can get the wireless work manually, like this: a) in /boot/loader.conf: if_ath_load="YES" wlan_tkip_load="YES" (I got an error message that said the the wlan_tkip modulen should be loaded manually for now) b) in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ath0="DHCP" c) run /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start ath0 But how do I automatically run wpa_supplicant on startup? I'm running 6.0-stable: root@kg-jobbpc3# uname -a FreeBSD kg-jobbpc3.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Nov 6 01:33:12 CET 2005 root@kg-jobbpc3.kg4.no:/storage/usr/obj/storage/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway
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