Date: 19 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Wireless setups Message-ID: <44k770oet0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <20031019153359.BC9C.LUKEK@meibin.net> References: <20031019153359.BC9C.LUKEK@meibin.net>
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Luke Kearney <lukek@meibin.net> writes: > Hi There, > I have recently installed 4.8R on my IBM Thinkpad notebook which > fortunately includes a wireless NIC. The nic is recognised as wi0 for > which I am grateful as Linux did not recognise the card first time > around. Now I often move between networks and having to set the wepkey > and ssid etc etc by hand will become very tiresome very quickly. I was > wondering if any one can point me in the direction of a better way to > set these. I am guessing that this will still have to be done after the > boot but what do people use ? > > I was able to get the interface up and ping other hosts so no problems > there but can this NIC be set for dhcp rather than having to go through > the grief of setting everything manually ? Doesn't WEP have to be configured *before* you can communicate with the DHCP server in the first place?
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