Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 23:16:06 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Beecher Rintoul <alaskabeech@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WIFI DHCP Message-ID: <20050523211606.GB11447@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050523205202.54564.qmail@web50402.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20050523205202.54564.qmail@web50402.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote: > I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection. > I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the > card to use DHCP.=20 Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) >I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm > connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network Configuration). In short: - make sure that "device bpf" is in the kernel (it is in GENERIC) - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: 'ifconfig_XXX=3D"DHCP"' where XXX is the name of your wireless card. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith (http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/) Please send e-mail as plain text. public key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCkkgWEnfvsMMhpyURAt19AJ9lTA2Ln6mszUQ4KiPVlA3JRpem4wCaAhNl GG0Ci/iQYOHV73v0lRAk2T8= =DYDF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Bn2rw/3z4jIqBvZU--
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