From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 4 22:29:41 2004 Return-Path: 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 E65AE16A4CE for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:29:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx1.portjeff.net (mx1.portjeff.net [216.168.142.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9711243D49 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 22:29:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from c.rued@xsb.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx1.portjeff.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF8186162 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:25:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from mx1.portjeff.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mx1 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01450-02 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:25:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from xsb.com (mail.portjeff.net [216.168.142.132]) by mx1.portjeff.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2172861C1 for ; Thu, 4 Nov 2004 17:25:37 -0500 (EST) Received: from [10.25.1.120] [129.49.16.170] by xsb.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-7.15) id AD5F90501BE; Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:29:51 -0500 Message-ID: <418AADEE.5090408@xsb.com> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 17:32:14 -0500 From: Christopher Rued User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at mx1.portjeff.net Subject: Configure WEP on startup X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 22:29:42 -0000 I apologize in advance if this question has been asked and answered before, but I haven't really found a completely satisfactory answer anywhere that I looked. My question is: what is the correct way to configure my wireless network card to use WEP and to obtain an IP address from a DHCP server at at startup? What's the magic line to insert into rc.conf? uname -a: FreeBSD laptop.xsb-internal.com 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Wed Nov 3 06:45:45 EST 2004 root@laptop.crued.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 The closest thing I have found is https://cusg.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bira/freebsdwireless.html but this is for an older version of FreeBSD and it requires some weired hackery, such as inserting sleeps to (hopefully) allow the rest of the system to get to a point where wicontrol commands will work. Also, it seems to be for an older version of FreeBSD and uses deprecated wicontrol commands. (It would be nice if sysinstall would handle this). Please include me on any replies, as I am not subscribed to this list. TIA --Chris