Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 10:25:16 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Cc: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net>, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Still roaming issues with new dhclient and if_wi Message-ID: <20050908172516.GG31354@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <20050908171806.6AA7E5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20050908185912.615aeaed@Magellan.Leidinger.net> <20050908171806.6AA7E5D07@ptavv.es.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:18:06AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2005 18:59:12 +0200 > > From: Alexander Leidinger <Alexander@Leidinger.net> > > > > On Thu, 08 Sep 2005 08:57:30 -0700 > > "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > > > > I have a ThinkPad with a Prism2.5 wireless card and use the wi > > > driver. > > > > Do you use WEP? If yes, can you use it just with the typical rc.conf > > entries or do you have a custom start script? I ask since I have to use > > some "complicated" start procedure (setting some values with ifconfig, > > load the wep module, set some other values with ifconfig and the scan > > for the AP). > > Thanks for the suggestion, but these are open APs. No WEP, TKIP, or > anything else. Nothing at all fancy about the rc.conf. Just > ifconfig_wi0="DHCP". It's about a simple as it gets. > > I'm planning on trying the wpa_supplicant to see if that works better, but I > won't get a chance until I get back to Berkeley. I'm not sure that if_wi > has all of the required stuff for the supplicant to work, either. It does not. If you want anything other than WEP, you probably need an Atheros card. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDIHP7XY6L6fI4GtQRAlVUAJ9MnPBySntBkvR2KzP2z4SZtf01bgCeOUmi XZ9HjPOREFxMVA96Fy5yoEs= =SdEC -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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