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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 2014 14:38:07 +0200
From:      "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com>
To:        Chris Van Steenlandt <chris.vansteenlandt@telenet.be>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour
Message-ID:  <201408231238.s7NCc8ME057766@fire.js.berklix.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message "Sat, 23 Aug 2014 12:22:45 %2B0200." <53F86B75.8030702@telenet.be>

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Hi Chris cc wireless@

> After reading quite some man pages, I finally have my laptop set up as 
> follows :
> /etc/rc.conf :
> ifconfig_wlan0 =" ssid myssid"
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="mode 11g"
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="-bgscan"
> ifconfig_wlan0 = "WPA DHCP"

( I prefer wired nets & only fumble with wireless when I must, but )
The above has multiple Bourne shell syntax errors.

> ifconfig_wlan0 =" ssid myssid"
................^..^	delete spaces
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="mode 11g"
................^	delete space
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="-bgscan"
................^	delete space
> ifconfig_wlan0 = "WPA DHCP"
................^.^	delete spaces

a test live with with /bin/sh:

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid"
ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g"
ifconfig_wlan0="-bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
echo $ifconfig_wlan0

& see 3 previous assertions overwritten by the fourth. So try either

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 mode 11g"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 -bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 WPA DHCP"

or

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid mode 11g -bgscan WPA DHCP"

Cheers,
Julian
-- 
Julian Stacey, BSD Linux Unix C Sys Eng Consultant Munich http://berklix.com
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