Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 08:42:55 +0300 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+fbsdm@pelleg.org> To: ste@smxy.org Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Coping with multiple wireless and wired nets. Message-ID: <u2szn7x5ag0.fsf@pelleg.org> In-Reply-To: <40AE92CD.1020501@smxy.org> (Shaun T. Erickson's message of "Fri, 21 May 2004 19:37:49 -0400") References: <40AE92CD.1020501@smxy.org>
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"Shaun T. Erickson" <ste@smxy.org> writes: > Ok. I installed 5.2.1 on a laptop the other night, which went quite > nicely. During the install, it detected my wireless card, just fine. It > wanted to dhcp for it, but that (correctly) failed, as my net uses wep. So, > it punted me to the manual interface configuration screen, where I was > easily able to tell it everything it needed to successfully get me on the > air. I was a happy camper. > > Questions: > > 1) How do I tell the system the ssid, wepmode, and key, and then have it get > everything else via dhcp, during boot up? > In the right interface clause in /etc/dhclient.conf add: media "ssid MYSSID nwkey MYKEY"; > 2) How do I *easily* handle multiple wireless nets? I will be using the > laptop on a number of them. media "ssid MYSSID1 nwkey MYKEY1", "ssid MYSSID2 nwkey MYKEY2", "ssid - wepmode off"; -- Dan Pelleg
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