Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:59:44 -0700 From: David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wpa_supplicant questions Message-ID: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org>
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--qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, With my notebook system, I wander various places and have to alter the wpa supplicant configuration for some of these places. (Fortunately, this proved easier than I expected and the initial installation provided example entries that, gee, I know work.) I then need to restart the network, sometimes overriding an association wpa_supplicant may already have made.=20 'service netif restart' seems inadequate and I have been having to reboot--an elaborate process because the notebook is UEFI and won't boot legacy-style off the hard disk. What is the correct incantation to do this? Also, how does one escape an apostrophe in an SSID, as in "Nature's Express" (the SSID at a vegan restaurant in North Berkeley), in the wpa supplicant configuration? Finally, does 'ifconfig scan' output indicate signal strength? At a conference I attended yesterday, they had several similarly named access points to choose from (the ability to use a wildcard would have been helpful as they all take the same password), but I did not know which I should choose. As you can imagine, this compounded the above difficulties--I wound up abandoning my attempt to use my FreeBSD notebook in this situation. Thanks! --=20 David Benfell <benfell@parts-unknown.org> See https://parts-unknown.org/node/2 if you don't understand the attachment. --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJT+mBQAAoJEBV64x4SNmArFGUP/1dsi6meSxMnPeZ8K8a+nCML fPv8yDIyjVVgimHoO/6ZB4ujgJUxVxqxNHsPd7Hnx3PXguIlyXN7D0qeBSQM3inb wDlAE/UBaG8znxMuG9OqUXZsCTD3BbX6VTfqgg8LIvF2850f+G1eaky+nUEah57C RByY64b072nfuvx0xy8y5Rk60SmFiw6k//ebjCD82n2CgxRRnurSRFJmwRXHkELN aygt+M06WVzW2wviuFOT5fKidSb3y5bJ0OKooGDAyes2MQVO6hGocbzM/+wbb/j8 atHX65x2aEjGc6m9luis3C7A0RuU/KniNAGE9oPC1137UbM4JxIC0Uc2Z5iMG++F fd0rmGMX4C7JOno/yAceUItuY9+Mt9Pphy/OeQnDMuNLRF0QacfjVRHUXWSjSQFl w94hlpLt5iwXzL4SoapUCRpeboDfaB0+ekQDN4cTh3JmyaomPIRJ38kEIL4uluOY xgC34XsDBWyqu4zNe+kkfVyoFQkkjnw1CcXmc6HaBrbwoG5A6+haR16VyHOSYZma D4d35OYwubOMnpkCb2IwXFqG1EHsKdUuE3iKNPtfxLrEgtjBdHk8fsrDYWOOS0zf Z0+1PZVPeHUr+uNScQNfqFOx8cKwFVhwuYX3Q9JAjRn8EpPDSKO4oFPCgeP3AkhB juyuHvz8o0hXcHpYy8Lt =H46E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe--
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