Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 00:31:58 +0300 From: "Dennis Melentyev" <dennis.melentyev@gmail.com> To: "Matthias Apitz" <m.apitz@oclcpica.org> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How detecting the Wifi area my iwi0 is in? Message-ID: <b84edfa10707161431o26da77ctc5a4e545057a74f0@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20070716120359.GA4550@rebelion.Sisis.de> References: <20070716093136.GA1600@rebelion.Sisis.de> <b84edfa10707160250i360b883eh75305e02040198b0@mail.gmail.com> <20070716120359.GA4550@rebelion.Sisis.de>
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Mattias,
2007/7/16, Matthias Apitz <m.apitz@oclcpica.org>:
> El día Monday, July 16, 2007 a las 12:50:24PM +0300, Dennis Melentyev escribió:
>
> > Hello Mattias,
> >
> > Have you tried wpa_supplicant for this? It can perfectly autodetect
> > networks for me (office/home). With iwi driver on 7.0-CURRENT-200706
> > snapshot (HP/Compaq nc8230).
>
> Hello Dennis,
>
> In some of the offices I'm as well using wpa_supplicant, at home
> I have only WEP (maybe this would work as well with wpa_supplicant,
> I've never tried it and just putting the wepkey with ifconfig into
> the interface); but all this is more complex then just doing the
> association, because I have also (sometimes) use a dedicated IP
> addr, sometimes I must fetch it with DHCP, and/or have to set other
> network related files accordingly (/etc/hosts, /etc/resolv.conf
> and others); thats why my idea was having a script in
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/wlan.sh with the logic like:
Sam Leffler were more correct than me. It looks like the way he told
is being more "right" one to me.
>
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> ifconfig iwi0 scan
> ifconfig iwi0 list ap | fgrep -q office1 && wifi=office1
> ifconfig iwi0 list ap | fgrep -q office2 && wifi=office2
> ifconfig iwi0 list ap | fgrep -q office3 && wifi=office3
> #....
>
> #
> # switch IP layout: office1 / office2 / ... based on ${wifi}
> #
> case ${wifi} in
>
> office1) printf "Found Wifi 'office1' ... " ;
> cat /home/guru/sys/hosts.office1 > /etc/hosts
> cat /home/guru/sys/resolv.conf.office1 > /etc/resolv.conf
> cat /home/guru/sys/nsswitch.conf.office1 > /etc/nsswitch.conf
> route delete default > /dev/null
> ifconfig bge0 down
> ssid=office1
> wepkey=xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> inet=192.168.2.3
> netmask=0xffffff00
> ifconfig iwi0 inet ${inet} \
> netmask ${netmask} \
> ssid ${ssid} \
> wepkey ${wepkey} \
> channel 9 weptxkey 1 wepmode on
> ping -c3 -o smc
> route add default 192.168.2.1 > /dev/null
> printf "... done.\n" ;
> ;;
>
>
> office2) printf "Found Wifi 'office2' ... " ;
> route flush > /dev/null
> route delete 193.31.10.32/27 > /dev/null
> wpa_supplicant -B -i iwi0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
> # let the WPA client come up and init the iwi0 interface
> sleep 1
> ifconfig iwi0 inet 193.31.10.34 netmask 255.255.255.224
> route add default 193.31.10.58 > /dev/null
> cat /home/guru/sys/hosts.office2 > /etc/hosts
> cat /home/guru/sys/resolv.conf.office2 > /etc/resolv.conf
> cat /home/guru/sys/nsswitch.conf.office2 > /etc/nsswitch.conf
>
> # ....
>
>
> I'm clearer now what I want to do?
>
> matthias
>
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