Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400
From:      "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Coping with multiple wireless and wired nets.
Message-ID:  <40AE92CD.1020501@smxy.org>

next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Ok. I installed 5.2.1 on a laptop the other night, which went quite 
nicely. During the install, it detected my wireless card, just fine. It 
wanted to dhcp for it, but that (correctly) failed, as my net uses wep. 
So, it punted me to the manual interface configuration screen, where I 
was easily able to tell it everything it needed to successfully get me 
on the air. I was a happy camper.

Questions:

1) How do I tell the system the ssid, wepmode, and key, and then have it 
get everything else via dhcp, during boot up?

2) How do I *easily* handle multiple wireless nets? I will be using the 
laptop on a number of them.

3) How do I tell the system to cope, when I put a wired card in, instead 
of a wireless card, and I just want it to get me on the air with dhcp?

	-ste



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40AE92CD.1020501>