From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jun 6 20:41:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C44DE37B401 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:41:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f573f0j27807; Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:41:00 -0700 Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 20:41:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Doug Ambrisko Cc: dan@langille.org, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing via wireless Message-ID: <20010606204100.B26302@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200106070320.f573K5U86757@lists.unixathome.org> <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com>; from ambrisko@ambrisko.com on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:29:57PM -0700 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 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=20 > | wireless NIC (http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php). Is th= is=20 > | type of install something which is useful? > |=20 > | I ask because I'm wondering if there's any work going on at the moment= =20 > | in this area. The only way I could get FreeBSD installed on my laptop= =20 > | was via wireless. And the only way I could do that was with a custom= =20 > | mfsroot.flp. Is there another way? Have I missed something? Should= =20 > | what John Van Boxtel has done be taken further and incorporated into=20 > | FreeBSD? >=20 > 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 --=20 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 --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----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----- --3uo+9/B/ebqu+fSQ-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message