From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 24 21:59:52 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F325A7 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:59:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (home.parts-unknown.org [50.250.218.161]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E762238E7 for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.parts-unknown.org (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08E3D8C1A56E for ; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:59:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail.parts-unknown.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DE3528C1A56D; Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 14:59:44 -0700 From: David Benfell To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: wpa_supplicant questions Message-ID: <20140824215944.GE42644@home.parts-unknown.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qOrJKOH36bD5yhNe" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP on home.parts-unknown.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 21:59:52 -0000 --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 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--