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From: "K. Greenwood" <k_greenwood1@yahoo.com>
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Cc: Beecher Rintoul <alaskabeech@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: WIFI DHCP
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--- Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> wrote:
> Roland Smith wrote:
> > 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. 
> > 
> > 
> > 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="DHCP"'
> >   where XXX is the name of your wireless card.
> 
> Additionally... you should man dhclient,
> dhclient.conf, and 
> dhclient.leases.  IMHO: `ifconfig_XXX="DHCP"` is
> only part of the equation.
> 
> You may have to craft a dhclient.conf file to help
> your card associate 
> with its access point.  The dhclient.conf file will
> help you specify 
> things like the SSID, weptxkey, wepmode, mode (11a,
> 11b, or 11g), 
> wepkey, etc

Mr. Schuele was *very* helpful in the following post.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html

Once I got a chipset that was supported by "Project
Evil" (aka Mr. Paul's NDISulator) all was well.  FYI,
broadcom sucks... Intersil rules. 

*pciconf -vl* tells much.

Good luck.


		
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