From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Jan 18 10: 7:11 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from bunrab.catwhisker.org (adsl-63-193-123-122.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.193.123.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0C8337B41A for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:07:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from david@localhost) by bunrab.catwhisker.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0II71A16104; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:07:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david) Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 10:07:01 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <200201181807.g0II71A16104@bunrab.catwhisker.org> To: alan@clegg.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: WaveLAN configuration In-Reply-To: <20020118125756.C89830@shell.wetworks.org> 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 >Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:57:56 -0500 >From: Alan Clegg >Now, the question remains...=20 >I have a wireless lan with SSID Foo at home and one at work with SSID Bar,= >=20 >how do I get the system to auto-detect which location I am in? At home,=20 >just configuring the interface with DHCP works fine, but here at the office >I MUST specify the SSID on the interface or it won't do anything. There have been discussions on this topic before, and in the freebsd-mobile mailing list. Based on my observations, I expect it would be difficult (to impossible) to come up with a single approach that would even be perceived as "workable" by a consensus of those affected. That said, I cobbled up something that generally works well enough for me, and information about it (including a script & some sample files) may be viewed at http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD. Cheers, david -- David H. Wolfskill david@catwhisker.org I believe it would be irresponsible (and thus, unethical) for me to advise, recommend, or support the use of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product for any purpose other than personal amusement. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message