Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:41:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> Cc: dan@langille.org, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing via wireless Message-ID: <20010606204100.B26302@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com>; from ambrisko@ambrisko.com on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:29:57PM -0700 References: <200106070320.f573K5U86757@lists.unixathome.org> <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:29:57PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Dan Langille writes: > | Some of you have have read about my install of FreeBSD over a > | wireless NIC (http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php). Is this > | type of install something which is useful? > | > | I ask because I'm wondering if there's any work going on at the moment > | in this area. The only way I could get FreeBSD installed on my laptop > | was via wireless. And the only way I could do that was with a custom > | mfsroot.flp. Is there another way? Have I missed something? Should > | what John Van Boxtel has done be taken further and incorporated into > | FreeBSD? > > Eventually you should be able to this via ifconfig. You might try > a floppy from a -current snapshot server. Other then a possiable issue where sysinstall doesn't know that wi and an devices are network cards, you should be able to install from them in -current by adding appropraite parameters to the field that lets you specify arbitrary ifconfig options. Unless you have a really wacked network config ifconfig in current should have sufficent support. I'm not sure when this is going to hit stable (it shouldn't happen before PR kern/27826 is commited.) -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7HvfKXY6L6fI4GtQRApZiAJ9rIGDbNUww+G9fL7meHXgINDUlAwCgouLd h5cncIuN2OLAXfiOAvHpDzE= =S9mj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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