From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 19 19:12:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CBAF16A4B3 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:12:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from p1028-ipbffx02marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp (p1028-ipbffx02marunouchi.tokyo.ocn.ne.jp [220.111.132.28]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13D7043F85 for ; Sun, 19 Oct 2003 19:12:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lukek@meibin.net) Received: (qmail 59842 invoked by uid 89); 20 Oct 2003 02:12:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.1.70?) (220.110.84.36) by 192.168.20.5 with SMTP; 20 Oct 2003 02:12:09 -0000 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:05:52 +0900 From: Luke Kearney To: Lowell Gilbert In-Reply-To: <44k770oet0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20031019153359.BC9C.LUKEK@meibin.net> <44k770oet0.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Message-Id: <20031020110411.9A51.LUKEK@meibin.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.07.01 cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: Wireless setups X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 02:12:11 -0000 On 19 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0400 Lowell Gilbert spake thus: > Luke Kearney 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? Hi, You are of course absolutely correct, so I am kinda wondering how to manage this. Without connecting using the correct WEP it is a bit tough to get an IP. Again, any insights into this are appreciated. Thanks -- Luke Kearney