Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2001 09:05:45 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: dan@langille.org Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: setting keys : pccard.conf or dhclient-exit-hooks Message-ID: <200108021605.f72G5jm04084@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 02 Aug 2001 11:38:20 EDT." <200108021538.f72FcQt76326@lists.unixathome.org>
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> From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 11:38:20 -0400 > > On 2 Aug 2001, at 8:17, Kevin Oberman wrote: > > > > From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> > > > Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 08:57:51 -0400 > > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG > > > > > > I'm trying to get my wireless cards to use encryption (it's about time > > > too). Looking in the archives, there seems to be two approaches. > > > Either modify /etc/pccard.conf or /etc/dhclient-exit-hooks. Could I have > > > some views on both approaches please. > > > > Dan, > > > > I don't do either any more. I use the /etc/start_if.wi0 file to set my > > key and enable it. I find this a bit cleaner than the pccard.conf route > > (which I used before start_if was added). But they are functionally > > identical. I don't like putting it in the client_hooks as I don't > > really believe that this is a function related to DHCP. > > Ahh, then which of the following entries in my /etc/pccard.conf should > also go there? > > config 0x1 "wi" 5 > insert /etc/pccard_ether $device start > insert wicontrol -i $device -p 3 > remove /etc/pccard_ether $device stop I try to leave my pccard.conf file alone and the only thing in it at present is the irq line (since most of the IRQs listed in the defaults file are used on my laptop). Here is my complete and untouched /etc/pcard.conf file: irq 7 9 My start_if.wi0 file consists of: wicontrol -i wi0 -k 0x0123456789 wicontrol -i wi0 -e 1 Of course, that's NOT my key. :-) I'm not altogether happy with the design of the start_if mechanism, but it's still the bet I've found. R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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