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Date:      Tue, 3 Jun 2003 23:39:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      "Christian Sauer" <christian@endrun.org>
To:        "John Merryweather Cooper" <coop9211@uidaho.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to configure Wireless access with WEP on a laptop AND use  DHCPin/etc/rc.conf
Message-ID:  <4043.192.168.1.101.1054697964.squirrel@www.endrun.org>
In-Reply-To: <1054692949.523.31.camel@johncoop>
References:  <1054692949.523.31.camel@johncoop>

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John Merryweather Cooper said:
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>
> So, currently, my configuration line looks like:
>
> ifconfig_wi0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ssid some-ssid wepmode
> on wepkey some-128-bit-key"
>

put the "ifconfig wi0 ssid some-ssid wepmode on wepkey some-128-bit-key"
command into /etc/start_if.wi0

> And it works fine, provided I run dhclient manually.  But I can't just
> replace the dummies with DHCP (been there, it doesn't work).

and then in /etc/rc.conf, you can go back to ifconfig_wi0="dhcp"

> How should I do this?
>
> jmc
>

-Christian

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