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Date:      Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:29:50 -0400
From:      "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org>
To:        Roman Shakin <rshakin@unixfreak.org>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless on start up
Message-ID:  <1127442590.4143.6.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <43321517.8000700@unixfreak.org>
References:  <43321517.8000700@unixfreak.org>

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On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:21 -0700, Roman Shakin wrote:
> hello I need help with setting up my wireless card to be run on startup 
> of the machene i am trying to use rc.config and it's only half 
> working... can someone share a script or something like that. Or show me 
> how they did it so my wi0 is set before the dhcp starts
> 
> 
> right now I have
> 
> /sbin/infconfig wi0 wepmode on weptxkey1 wepkey is set directly from 
> rc.config now I dont want to do that... i want it set before 
> ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" so it actually works. How would I go about that
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config it for DHCP in rc.conf such as ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" then create a
file in /etc called start_if.wi0 and add the extras like
ifconfig_wi0="ssid blahblahblah" I'm in linux right now so I don't have
an exact example, but if you google for start_if.wi0, you should find
plenty of examples.

-mark




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