From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 18 1:49:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from yamato.ccrle.nec.de (yamato.ccrle.nec.de [195.37.70.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2575437B402 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 01:49:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from citadel.mobility.ccrle.nec.de ([192.168.156.1]) by yamato.ccrle.nec.de (8.11.6/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g0I9ndH64972; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:49:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from elgar (elgar.heidelberg.ccrle.nec.de [192.168.102.180]) by citadel.mobility.ccrle.nec.de (Postfix on SuSE eMail Server 2.0) with ESMTP id 8618AC05B; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:49:10 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:49:08 +0100 From: Martin Stiemerling To: Tony Saign , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN configuration Message-ID: <19410000.1011347348@elgar> In-Reply-To: <200201180948.g0I9mkP11479@opensrs.saignon.net> References: <200201180948.g0I9mkP11479@opensrs.saignon.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.1 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Check /etc/default/rc.conf There some configuration variables like pcmcia_ifconfig. They work the same as the ifconfig_xxx variables, but there are executed on inserting a pcmcia network card. Martin --On Freitag, Januar 18, 2002 01:48:46 -0800 Tony Saign wrote: > I am having trouble with a WaveLAN card. > > I've read wi wicontrol ifconfig man pages, but none of them say anything > about how/where to permanently set the wireless configuration. > > I've been manually running a script when I login, but it is pretty > inconsistent. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. > > I've been having to manually run dhclient a few times to get it to lease > an address. > > Can I alter one of the conf files to include this information?? > > The main problem seems to be that the card initializes after the login: > prompt > > Thanks in advance, > -Tony > (p.s. thanks for the video/sound tips, they are both working great now!) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message