Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 22:49:45 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> To: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> Cc: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks for FBSD6 Message-ID: <439758F9.9070307@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <7daacbbe0512071335t835e72mfc0b016b89a349f9@mail.gmail.com> References: <dn7el7$6dr$1@sea.gmane.org> <7daacbbe0512071233q71e5608as8e47a975032f46f4@mail.gmail.com> <43974CEB.6080708@locolomo.org> <7daacbbe0512071335t835e72mfc0b016b89a349f9@mail.gmail.com>
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Dominique Goncalves wrote: >>>You can use in /etc/rc.conf: >>> >>>ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid" >> >>That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to >>config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add: > > According to this documentation > http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html > this syntax is ok on 6.0, but I don't know if the order of arguments > have an importance. Yes, you're right, it works - I'm not sure of the order either. What doesn't work anymore is the "ancient" posibility of including these options in dhclient.conf However, wpa_supplicant is needed to handle encryption keys etc. And then comes the neat feature of supporting multiple networks. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: http://www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:38:46:F6:9A:5D:B4:DC:29:41:3F:62:D3:0A:73:25:67:C2
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