Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 10:22:49 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> To: kiffin.gish@planet.nl Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Automatically reconnecting after wireless connection dropped ... Message-ID: <20080208092249.GA3487@rebelion.Sisis.de> In-Reply-To: <CCBAE06544756047A468CB5446C525180154B6CE@CPEXBE-EML19.kpnsp.local> References: <CCBAE06544756047A468CB5446C525180154B6CE@CPEXBE-EML19.kpnsp.local>
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El día Friday, February 08, 2008 a las 09:49:31AM +0100, kiffin.gish@planet.nl escribió: > Hi there. > > I'd like to have my laptop reconnect automatically to my home network whenever the line is dropped for some reason or other. I currently have a script that does this for me, but I have to manually run it from the command line. > > A nice feature of other linux systems is the nm-applet which keeps watch and does it automatically for you, however I cannot seem to find an equivalent utility in the FreeBSD ports. > > Is there a standard way of doing this with the wi driver? I'm running wpa_supplicant for my different Wifi areas (i.e. for WPA and also for WEP networks) and, for example, if I toggle the power of the AP my laptop reconnects without any kind of problem. > -- > Kiffin Gish <kiffin.gish@planet.nl> > Gouda, The Netherlands Yes, please send me some Gouda. And please cut your lines around column 72. Thx matthias -- Matthias Apitz Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH Gruenwalder Weg 28g - 82041 Oberhaching - Germany t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e <matthias.apitz@oclc.org> - w http://www.oclc.org/ http://www.UnixArea.de/ b http://gurucubano.blogspot.com/ Don't top-post, read RFC1855 http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html
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