Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 11:30:37 GMT From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/141245: [handbook][patch] Chapter 31.3 Wireless Networking: Update sample /etc/rc.conf entry for FreeBSD 8.X Message-ID: <200912071130.nB7BUbRi041203@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200912071140.nB7Be1bl000573@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 141245
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [handbook][patch] Chapter 31.3 Wireless Networking: Update sample /etc/rc.conf entry for FreeBSD 8.X
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Dec 07 11:40:00 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Glen Barber
>Release: 8.0-STABLE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD orion 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #7 r200016: Wed Dec 2 00:18:02 EST 2009 root@orion:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ORION amd64
>Description:
>From UPDATING:
20080420:
The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
operation on devices that are capable. The underlying device
is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
cloned with ifconfig. This requires changes to rc.conf files.
The attached patch notes this change in the Handbook.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Patch attached with submission follows:
--- /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml.orig 2009-08-11 13:33:35.000000000 -0400
+++ /usr/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/advanced-networking/chapter.sgml 2009-12-07 06:20:22.000000000 -0500
@@ -1048,6 +1048,17 @@
<programlisting>ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"</programlisting>
+ <warning>
+ <para>As of &os; 8.<replaceable>X</replaceable>, the
+ <filename>/etc/rc.conf</filename> has changed. An example
+ entry, replacing <replaceable>ath0</replaceable> with your
+ wireless adapter is as follows:</para>
+ </warning>
+
+ <programlisting>wlans_ath0="wlan0"
+ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"</programlisting>
+
+
<para>If there are multiple access points and you want to
select a specific one, you can select it by its
SSID:</para>
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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