Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:06:40 -0500 From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> To: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant questions Message-ID: <CAFKhKgrF95wAo1a7xRH-=KH9-gVYBUaXdVK10mLJqAnErdMGfw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org>
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Have you considered using the wifimgr port? You can find more information here: http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr/ Best of luck, Andrew On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 4:59 PM, David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > With my notebook system, I wander various places and have to alter the > wpa supplicant configuration for some of these places. (Fortunately, > this proved easier than I expected and the initial installation > provided example entries that, gee, I know work.) > > I then need to restart the network, sometimes overriding an > association wpa_supplicant may already have made. > > 'service netif restart' seems inadequate and I have been having to > reboot--an elaborate process because the notebook is UEFI and won't > boot legacy-style off the hard disk. > > What is the correct incantation to do this? > > Also, how does one escape an apostrophe in an SSID, as in "Nature's > Express" (the SSID at a vegan restaurant in North Berkeley), in the > wpa supplicant configuration? > > Finally, does 'ifconfig scan' output indicate signal strength? At a > conference I attended yesterday, they had several similarly named > access points to choose from (the ability to use a wildcard would have > been helpful as they all take the same password), but I did not know > which I should choose. As you can imagine, this compounded the above > difficulties--I wound up abandoning my attempt to use my FreeBSD > notebook in this situation. > > Thanks! > -- > David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> > See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the > attachment. >
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