Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 17:06:57 -0500 From: Scot Hetzel <swhetzel@gmail.com> To: Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> Cc: FreeBSD-Current <current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD-mobile <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Something incorrect in networking scripts. Message-ID: <790a9fff050620150641acac8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050620234401.10169a26.lists@yazzy.org> References: <20050620234401.10169a26.lists@yazzy.org>
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On 6/20/05, Marcin Jessa <lists@yazzy.org> wrote:
> I have a Thinkpad r50e with a PRO/Wireless 2200BG WLAN nic - iwi device.
> When I set it up in rc.conf to be called wlan0 instead of iwi0 :
>
> ifconfig_fxp0_name="lan0" # Change interface name from fxp0 to net0.
> ifconfig_lan0=dhcp
> ifconfig_iwi0_name="wlan0"
> ifconfig_wlan0="inet 12.23.34.45 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid MY_SSID"
>
> and then create /etc/start_if_wlan0 :
> iwicontrol wlan0 -d /usr/local/libdata/if_iwi -m bss
> iwicontrol -i wlan0 -r
> ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> The file does not seem to be used. When I rename it to start_if_iwi0 it is not used either.
> I need to manually run the lines from it.
> lan0 is brought up fine with dhcp.
>
The format for the name of the start_if* file (as seen in /etc/network.subr) is:
/etc/start_if.${ifn}
You'll need to rename your file to start_if.wlan0.
Scot
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