Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:54:24 -0800 From: "Jono Juggler" <jono@mail2Juggler.com> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: wireless connect script Message-ID: <4f7f01c652e4$78399aa0$64ca010a@mail2world.com>
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Hello, I am setting up FreeBSD6 on my thinkpad, and I am trying to find an easy way to connect to an available network. I was hoping there was a Gnome applet or anything in X11 that would allow this, but I have found that there is not. Note that I have been able to connect to an access point using ifconfig commands. So I am looking for a script or anything that will do the connecting for me at the terminal level, but I have not found one either. So now I am reduced to just looking for something that will display the available networks. I installed both bsd_airtools/dstumbler and wistumbler2. Both programs run, but do not work. dstumbler gives and ioctl error and wistumbler2 prints nothing. So does anyone have a script that will show the available networks and then allows you to choose one to connect to. Maybe I will look into a way of writting my own program in Tcl or something. I can just parse the output from: ifconfig iwi0 last ap Even the output is not very nice as it is and I dont know what all the fields stand for. If the SSID is too long, it cuts it off. Is there some documentation on this table, or a way to change the formatting? The man page does not get into it? Are people working on this sort of thing? <span id=m2wTl><p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" style="font-size:13.5px">_______________________________________________________________<BR>Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at <a href=http://www.mail2world.com target=new>http://www.mail2world.com</a><br>; <font color=#999999>Unlimited Email Storage – POP3 – Calendar – SMS – Translator – Much More!</font></font></span>
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