From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 27 10:26:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EABEE37B401 for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from postal2.es.net (postal2.es.net [198.128.3.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4CA7A43E4A for ; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal2.es.net (Postal Node 2) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:50 -0700 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A11B25D06; Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:49 -0700 (PDT) To: Kevin Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Wireless In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:59:25 EDT." <20020926205502.J25450-100000@drinian.bsdknight.com> Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2002 10:26:49 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20020927172649.A11B25D06@ptavv.es.net> 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: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 20:59:25 -0400 (EDT) > From: Kevin > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > Matthew, > > Its pretty straight forward. > > Find out what nic you have, find it in LINT or GENERIC, make sure > that line is in your boxes kernel config file (i.e. mine is device wi ). > > Recompile and install the kernel. > > Make sure that something like this is in the rc.conf file. > > pccard_enable="YES" > pccard_ifconfig="inet 192.168.0.42 netmask 255.255.255.255" > pccard_mem="DEFAULT" > pccardd_flags=" -i 10" > > If you have a nic in this box that is on a physical lan connection > and is on the same subnet the netmask for one of them has to be > 255.255.255.255 and the other can be 255.255.255.0. > > Reboot. > > Season to taste. > > And thats pretty much it. > A couple more things: If you use DHCP, pccard_ifconfig="DHCP" instead of the address and mask. The 'pccardd_flags=" -i 10"' should probably not be needed (or wanted) on most systems. YMMV. I do recommend 'pccardd_flags="-z". Also, read up on the wi extensions to ifconfig and wicontrol for setting up the network name (usually just let it find the AP by leaving it blank) and encryption (WEP). ('man wi' and 'man wicontrol') R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message