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Date:      Mon, 21 Apr 2003 15:30:54 -0700
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        "vizion communication" <vizion@ixpres.com>
Cc:        Mike Jackson <mjj@isorauta.ntc.nokia.com>
Subject:   Re: netgear ma311 failures (wi0 driver) 
Message-ID:  <20030421223054.D39835D09@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Message from "vizion communication" <vizion@ixpres.com>  <016a01c30850$2680ffa0$15b55042@vizion2000.net> 

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> From: "vizion communication" <vizion@ixpres.com>
> Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:51:22 -0700
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
> 
> OK guys thanks for all the help
> 
> I have now successfully updated the MA311 to latest version.
> The PCI card is in the slot recognized as wi0.
> 
> dmesg identifies the card--
> 
> I have made the entry in rc.conf  ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"
> 
> Does anyone know a good way of ensuring that wi0 only
> accepted communications from a specific access point (mac
> address and ssid)?

See 'man wi' for the appropriate additions to ifconfig. You may find
/etc/start_if.wi0 a good way to set this up, as well. These are also
places to enable WEP and set the keys.

Note that there is a plan afoot to eliminate the capability of wicontrol
to set up the card, so I'd stick to ifconfig.

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



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