From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Aug 2 8:48:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from lists.unixathome.org (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6F5E37B401 for ; Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:48:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (lists.unixathome.org [210.48.103.158]) by lists.unixathome.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f72FcQt76326; Fri, 3 Aug 2001 03:38:26 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Message-Id: <200108021538.f72FcQt76326@lists.unixathome.org> From: "Dan Langille" Organization: novice in training To: "Kevin Oberman" Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:38:20 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: setting keys : pccard.conf or dhclient-exit-hooks Reply-To: dan@langille.org Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.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> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) 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 On 2 Aug 2001, at 8:17, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > From: "Dan Langille" > > 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 pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message