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Subject: Re: 6.0 and wireless setup - documentation?
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Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:

>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).
>  
>
Did you check the secret master wireless acticle for FreeBSD? Its quite 
good.
http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
Why its not in the handbook I don't know maybe its just not quite 
perfect in someway I can't see but I say just chuck it in the main 
handbook now.

Mike