Date: Thu, 7 Jun 2001 09:22:55 -0400 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing via wireless Message-ID: <200106071322.f57DMvU00192@lists.unixathome.org> In-Reply-To: <20010606204100.B26302@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <200106070329.f573TvO97769@ambrisko.com>; from ambrisko@ambrisko.com on Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:29:57PM -0700
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On 6 Jun 2001, at 20:41, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:29:57PM -0700, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > > Dan Langille writes: > > | Some of you have have read about my install of FreeBSD over a > > | wireless NIC (http://www.freebsddiary.org/wireless-install.php). Is > > this | type of install something which is useful? | | I ask because I'm > > wondering if there's any work going on at the moment | in this area. The > > only way I could get FreeBSD installed on my laptop | was via wireless. > > And the only way I could do that was with a custom | mfsroot.flp. Is > > there another way? Have I missed something? Should | what John Van > > Boxtel has done be taken further and incorporated into | FreeBSD? > > > > Eventually you should be able to this via ifconfig. You might try > > a floppy from a -current snapshot server. > > Other then a possiable issue where sysinstall doesn't know that wi and an > devices are network cards, you should be able to install from them in > -current by adding appropraite parameters to the field that lets you > specify arbitrary ifconfig options. What appropriate parameters? FWIW: when I used the custom floppy mentioned in my original post, I had to start a emergecy holgraphic shell, then "wicontrol -i wi0 3" (or something like that). Then the NIC appeared in the list of interfaces. This worked both for DHCP and for manual configuration of the IP, netmask, etc. With the exception of the wicontrol command, which I expect can be automated, this is what I would expect people eventually want (i.e. seamless). Is a seamless install via wirelss planned? > Unless you have a really wacked > network config ifconfig in current should have sufficent support. I'm not > sure when this is going to hit stable (it shouldn't happen before PR > kern/27826 is commited.) It would be good for it to get to stable. thanks. -- Dan Langille pgpkey - finger dan@unixathome.org | http://unixathome.org/finger.php To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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