From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Sep 22 19:30:13 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C024F37B42C for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id TAA96758; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:30:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:30:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009230230.TAA96758@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Danny Howard Subject: Re: conf/21489: /etc/pccard_ether feature request Reply-To: Danny Howard Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR conf/21489; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Danny Howard To: Brooks Davis Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: conf/21489: /etc/pccard_ether feature request Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:29:52 -0700 On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 07:25:39PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote: > > This is an intresting idea, but after doing some work with a WaveLAN > card here, I'm not sure it's enough. The problem is that you need to > be able to set several settings in some environments. For example, > in the system I'm setting up, you'll have to set the port type, the SSID, [...] I'd think you could write a script to plug in for pre-config. The trick is how the system would determine appropriate settings for a card before it can even determine the network it is on. My hunch is that the wi driver should be able to try a few different settings, but this is a lot more work than the simple kludge suggested here, which will get a lot of folks like me working right away. :) -danny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message