From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri May 21 16:37:50 2004
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG>
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 B4BBE16A4CE
	for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 21 May 2004 16:37:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from peter.smxy.org (smxy.org [64.32.179.41])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EEF443D41
	for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 21 May 2004 16:37:50 -0700 (PDT)	(envelope-from ste@smxy.org)
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBC022405
	for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from smxy.org ([127.0.0.1])
 by localhost (peter.smxy.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10025)
 with ESMTP id 78997-08 for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>;
 Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
Received: from smxy.org (pcp09422820pcs.plnfld01.nj.comcast.net
	[69.141.210.35])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(No client certificate requested)
	by peter.smxy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP
	for <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>;
	Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <40AE92CD.1020501@smxy.org>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400
From: "Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.5 (Windows/20040207)
X-Accept-Language: en-us, en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 at smxy.org
Subject: Coping with multiple wireless and wired nets.
X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1
Precedence: list
Reply-To: ste@smxy.org
List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD <freebsd-mobile.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>,
	<mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile>,
	<mailto:freebsd-mobile-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 May 2004 23:37:50 -0000

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