From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 19 07:42:30 2004 Return-Path: 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 DBCF516A4CE for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:42:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from otter3.centtech.com (moat3.centtech.com [207.200.51.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02F7143D46 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 07:42:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Received: from centtech.com (neutrino.centtech.com [10.177.171.220]) by otter3.centtech.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id i0JFgP6T012012; Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:42:26 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from anderson@centtech.com) Message-ID: <400BFAC9.8000701@centtech.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:42:01 -0600 From: Eric Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tobias Roth References: <20040119075122.GA22187@lara.unibe.ch> In-Reply-To: <20040119075122.GA22187@lara.unibe.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: managing multiple wireless SSIDs (summary discussion) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 15:42:31 -0000 Tobias Roth wrote: >[shortened quote] > > > >>I recently asked this list how I could automatically detect and >>initialize my wireless interface based on any available SSIDs. >> >>I received three responses for the three different "solutions" >>listed below: >> >>rcng patch for "autoconf at boot" >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-November/002284.html >> >> > >just to clear things up a bit: > > what profile.diff does is detect the network >at boot or resume, whether wireless or ethernet, and configures the whole >system (not just network, everything: proxy, nfs mounts/, firewall, ...) >according to where the laptop is located. it also seamlessly integrates into >rcng and is easily removed as well > >since i did not receive much feedback back in november when i sent the >patch to -current and -mobile, i will try again now that 5.2 is out and >everyone has some more time. this will be in three weeks or so, i first >have to make the patch acpi compliant. > Sounds cool - I'll help beta test once you've got your changes in.. Eric -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Anderson Systems Administrator Centaur Technology All generalizations are false, including this one. ------------------------------------------------------------------