From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 29 23:15:46 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 527EF16A423 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:15:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list@yazzy.org) Received: from mail.yazzy.org (mail.yazzy.org [217.8.140.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 811A843D53 for ; Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:15:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from list@yazzy.org) Received: from [192.168.98.11] (yazzy.yazzy.org [192.168.98.11]) by mail.yazzy.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CE8F39825; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:15:59 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: References: <438C05FB.8040807@roq.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v748) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <89B1DB7C-3B9D-4D70-8090-C0FBE44A7524@yazzy.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Marcin Jessa Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:15:30 +0100 To: James Earl X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.748) Cc: Michael Vince , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 23:15:46 -0000 On 29. nov. 2005, at 17.05, James Earl wrote: > Hi Mike, > > Thanks, everything worked pretty good! I didn't have alot of time > before I had to give the notebook back, but I should have an > opportunity to work on it over time. Just for the record, here's what > I ended up doing: > > I used the nicmond port to monitor the xl0 interface, which allowed me > to unplug one device, and plug in the other without any problems. I > created a link on the GNOME desktop to the start_if.ath0 file and > provided a number of commented examples. GNOME had a pretty good > network monitor applet (with minimal config capability) which showed > the connection strength of the ath0 device and gave some good visual > feedback. > > The only improvements that I'd like to look into further, which might > make this setup easier for someone who doesn't know much about > computers are: > > - A GUI configuration tool (which may happen as apps get ported to > FreeBSD) This is what we intend to include in www.desktopbsd.net > - No waiting at boot-up for dhclient to timeout Having ifconfig_xy="DHCP NOAUTO" should fix it afair. > - And the handling of situations where both devices are active > (perhaps give one device a higher priority than the other?) Search the archives, I think it was already discussed before. Cheers, Marcin. > > On 11/29/05, Michael Vince wrote: >> For FreeBSD 6 check out this wireless documentation >> http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ >> wireless/article.html >> as well as the offical handbook one, >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- >> wireless.html >> That wireless device does appear to be atheros based so you wont >> need to >> use the ndis driver with project evil but can use a native FreeBSD >> driver. >> >> I would recommend using dhcp setup with the wireless device, if >> you need >> something more easy then that then you will probably have to roll >> your own. >> >> Mike >> >> >> James Earl wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card. This >>> sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels. He >>> needs to >>> be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it >>> be a >>> wired or wireless connection. I previously had him running OpenBSD >>> with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it >>> working :). >>> >>> I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660. I currently have FreeBSD 6.0- >>> RELEASE >>> on the notebook. I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE, >>> hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added? >>> >>> I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with >>> FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn >>> this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put >>> win98 on it for him. I imagine there may be cases where he'd >>> have to >>> change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to... >>> which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME >>> wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD? >>> >>> I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up >>> to be >>> user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less >>> interaction, the better? >>> _______________________________________________ >>> freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list >>> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile >>> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile- >>> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >>> >>> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org"