From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 25 02:06:43 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 01229A2D for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x231.google.com (mail-la0-x231.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::231]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7E6893EA2 for ; Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f49.google.com with SMTP id hz20so12176346lab.36 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:06:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=tb9XPzulAvGjP09wd2M2rq7bkmyyyPMKjUDMqfNJp6A=; b=p9xwfjeRPyCOqMo/D6TbB+Oqo/bpWxwC2AHezGUO9+P1d5mftBTRikVbIN1MzftfUp HcC8swZQb4939MZc/uImkuhXdz5mCYRyXtmp+8WvSLAUIPptIZEQnuCBQ6QMksk4JAem Z7KyVBmkhmmNwgAsXUpKVfXl3cnoJsuE7GeCa3qZ9SRBe+4nMILtpLfJlNa13ek7oufB T3TSuZe8j/oJ08bfO51LbKzn/AbRMGt7qnP6qgTd7Tk5q/dKa/gypGGp7rFoxeBcd1Hc xDXOLV+BG/If3XZBAPgEozsd3pnaDMln+7PbXOD3+err2ByKKS8XTwkSqgzXr8dkp8Vd l6KQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.199.42 with SMTP id jh10mr17608789lbc.49.1408932400044; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:06:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.25.36.86 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 19:06:40 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org> References: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org> Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:06:40 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant questions From: Andrew Gould To: David Benfell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 02:06:43 -0000 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 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 > See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the > attachment. >