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From: "Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: ifconfig, wifi, and DHCP
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Hi Gary,

If your notebook is not broken, you should be able to use internal
WiFi with wpi driver.
I haven't tried the latest one yet (there are changes Benjamin asked
to check), but it worked for me for couple of monthes on my
D830/FBSD7.0 (Pre-Release).

Just give it a try.

2008/3/17, knowtree@aloha.com <knowtree@aloha.com>:
> Usually my Lucent gold wifi card (wi0:) comes up fine when I start my
>  laptop (Dell Latitude D830, FreeBSD 7.0), but once in a while it doesn't,
>  and sometimes I forget to plug it in. Sometimes it does not join my home
>  network. I do ifconfig wi0: down, then ifconfig wi0: up, and it joins my
>  network but it does not pull an IP address from my access point. I looked
>  at the man pages for ifconfig and wi and found nothing about how this is done.
>
>  Here is a hint. When I installed my system and chose wifi networking the
>  installer wrote this in my rc.conf:
>
>  ifconfig_wi0="dhcp ssid Oz"
>
>  Yes, my network's name is Oz. No, I am not the wizard. Can I use this
>  quoted phrase when I invoke ifconfig manually? I see ssid documented on the
>  man page for ifconfig, but not dhcp.
>
>  Gary Dunn
>  Open Slate Project
>
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Dennis Melentyev