From owner-freebsd-mobile Thu Jun 7 6:26:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from winston.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 553D537B405 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:26:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f57DPJO94437; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 06:25:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: dan@langille.org Cc: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing via wireless In-Reply-To: <200106071322.f57DMvU00192@lists.unixathome.org> References: <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com> <20010606204100.B26302@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <200106071322.f57DMvU00192@lists.unixathome.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010607062519L.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 06:25:19 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 54 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 The thing to do is make all the foocontrol program options available via ifconfig, which I believe is already underway, and then you can just type them into the 'extra options to ifconfig' dialog box. - Jordan From: "Dan Langille" Subject: Re: installing via wireless Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:22:55 -0400 > On 6 Jun 2001, at 20:41, Brooks Davis wrote: > > > 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. > > What appropriate parameters? > > FWIW: when I used the custom floppy mentioned in my original post, I > had to start a emergecy holgraphic shell, then "wicontrol -i wi0 3" (or > something like that). Then the NIC appeared in the list of interfaces. > This worked both for DHCP and for manual configuration of the IP, > netmask, etc. With the exception of the wicontrol command, which I > expect can be automated, this is what I would expect people eventually > want (i.e. seamless). Is a seamless install via wirelss planned? > > > 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.) > > It would be good for it to get to stable. thanks. > > -- > Dan Langille > pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message