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Date:      Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:23:04 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Mark A-J. Raught" <mraught@acm.org>
Cc:        Roman Shakin <rshakin@unixfreak.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless on start up
Message-ID:  <20050925212304.GE15981@odin.ac.hmc.edu>
In-Reply-To: <1127442590.4143.6.camel@localhost>
References:  <43321517.8000700@unixfreak.org> <1127442590.4143.6.camel@localhost>

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On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:29:50PM -0400, Mark A-J. Raught wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:21 -0700, Roman Shakin wrote:
> > hello I need help with setting up my wireless card to be run on startup=
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> > of the machene i am trying to use rc.config and it's only half=20
> > working... can someone share a script or something like that. Or show m=
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> > how they did it so my wi0 is set before the dhcp starts
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> > right now I have
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> > /sbin/infconfig wi0 wepmode on weptxkey1 wepkey is set directly from=20
> > rc.config now I dont want to do that... i want it set before=20
> > ifconfig_wi0=3D"DHCP" so it actually works. How would I go about that
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> config it for DHCP in rc.conf such as ifconfig_wi0=3D"DHCP" then create a
> file in /etc called start_if.wi0 and add the extras like
> ifconfig_wi0=3D"ssid blahblahblah" I'm in linux right now so I don't have
> an exact example, but if you google for start_if.wi0, you should find
> plenty of examples.

Better yet, run FreeBSD 6.0 and just set:

ifconfig_wi0=3D"ssid blahblahblah DHCP"

-- Brooks

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