From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 30 15:47:40 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 F349A16A420 for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:47:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesd.earl@gmail.com) Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.206]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B61343D5A for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:47:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jamesd.earl@gmail.com) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o37so28998nzf for ; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:47:36 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=NmaBS4JjR3+bt8TTDtC8PN71THuWZ7K8ZC8E20LnWhAaAW+PvhiGBRTz5bZ096lHBpmhuOasqF54AquDZ51miaFRiYnIeQFEiZOvm5yNhbre9Mq61LJJd+wtG+vSJbed4rhY5B1Y5WdaqgPeT/5r7OcB65/Hx3kkKonONzqzuQw= Received: by 10.65.38.14 with SMTP id q14mr218662qbj; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:47:34 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.64.10.6 with HTTP; Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:47:34 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 08:47:34 -0700 From: James Earl Sender: jamesd.earl@gmail.com To: Marcin Jessa In-Reply-To: <89B1DB7C-3B9D-4D70-8090-C0FBE44A7524@yazzy.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <438C05FB.8040807@roq.com> <89B1DB7C-3B9D-4D70-8090-C0FBE44A7524@yazzy.org> Cc: 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: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 15:47:40 -0000 On 11/29/05, Marcin Jessa wrote: > > 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=3D"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. Thanks for the tips! I hadn't thought of checking out DesktopBSD.=20 I'll have to give it a try.