Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 20:13:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Volker Stolz <vs@lambda.foldr.org> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: conf/41691: Combining WLAN-SSID & DHCP in rc.conf Message-ID: <200208151813.g7FID8ff095861@lambda.foldr.org>
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>Number: 41691 >Category: conf >Synopsis: Combining WLAN-SSID & DHCP in rc.conf >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 15 11:20:01 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Volker Stolz >Release: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE i386 >Organization: Lehrstuhl für Informatik II >Environment: System: FreeBSD lambda.foldr.org 4.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE #0: Mon Aug 12 20:33:20 PDT 2002 user@jail2.johncompanies.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/6300 i386 >Description: Currently there's no way of setting a preferred SSID for wireless NICs and asking for DHCP-setup in rc.conf. You can either configure the NIC manually using e.g. ifconfig_wi0="... ssid foo..." *or* set ifconfig_wi0 to DHCP and hope you end up in the correct network. >How-To-Repeat: Use two accesspoints to offer two different networks, enable DHCP in both and then try setting up your NIC correctly in rc.conf. >Fix: Add an option to rc.conf which gets queried before setting up the NIC and which contains the preferred SSID, e.g. ifconfig_wi0_ssid="foo" Modify /etc/rc.network accordingly. Another, more generic approach would be to have wicontrol_wi0="..." in rc.conf, which would allow for setting *any* parameter understood by wicontrol, including the SSID. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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