Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:38:20 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting keys : pccard.conf or dhclient-exit-hooks Message-ID: <200108021538.f72FcQt76326@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <200108021517.f72FHHm03665@ptavv.es.net> References: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 08:57:51 EDT." <200108021257.f72Cvut73904@lists.unixathome.org>
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On 2 Aug 2001, at 8:17, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:57:51 -0400
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> >
> > I'm trying to get my wireless cards to use encryption (it's about time
> > too). Looking in the archives, there seems to be two approaches.
> > Either modify /etc/pccard.conf or /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks. Could I have
> > some views on both approaches please.
>
> Dan,
>
> I don't do either any more. I use the /etc/start_if.wi0 file to set my
> key and enable it. I find this a bit cleaner than the pccard.conf route
> (which I used before start_if was added). But they are functionally
> identical. I don't like putting it in the client_hooks as I don't
> really believe that this is a function related to DHCP.
Ahh, then which of the following entries in my /etc/pccard.conf should
also go there?
config 0x1 "wi" 5
insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start
insert wicontrol -i $device -p 3
remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop
Thanks.
--
Dan Langille
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