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Date:      Mon, 18 Feb 2002 20:30:21 -0800
From:      "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To:        Vinod Namboodiri <geekvinod@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pccard.conf entry for orinoco 
Message-ID:  <20020219043021.57C8B5D09@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:17:48 PST." <20020219021748.1968.qmail@web21107.mail.yahoo.com> 

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> Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:17:48 -0800 (PST)
> From: Vinod Namboodiri <geekvinod@yahoo.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
> 
> can anyone tell me which entry in the pccard.conf file
> is for the orinoco gold card?
> is it the lucent wavelan/IEEE one?

Yes.

> after editing the wicontrol settings(using wicontrol
> -i wi0 commands) i got the card to work(from the
> led's).but after i rebooted the settings were the same
> again.does wicontrol haveto be configured everytime
> its booted?

The setting are volatile. The "proper" way to set them is to put he
appropriate commands into /etc/start_if.wi0. My file contains 2 line
to set the key and turn on encryption. I comment out the latter when
away form home.

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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