Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 18:40:35 +0100 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Sean Cavanaugh <millenia2000@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Wireless network control Message-ID: <20091204174035.GA26429@slackbox.xs4all.nl> In-Reply-To: <4B19416B.5090004@gmail.com> References: <BAY126-W22B50926CD5C5658A0B975CA930@phx.gbl> <4B19416B.5090004@gmail.com>
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--Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +0000, Ricardo Jesus wrote: > Sean Cavanaugh wrote: > >=20 > > I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. > > =20 > > =20 > > currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the > > wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real > > connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the > > wpa-supplicant to set that up, but if i go out and about and hit free w= ifi > > spots, I have to add the info for them into the wpa-supplicant.conf file > > to get it to access it. > > =20 > > keep in mind that ideally I use the latest gnome as my desktop. is there > > an easier tool to do this all with? Have a look at http://opal.com/freebsd/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr It is in ports; see /usr/ports/net-mgmt/wifimgr Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725) --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAksZSZMACgkQEnfvsMMhpyXC4ACdGejIEPFT1Ox8tDEOAfjImk4W eX4An0N0I8kF5GqpmD+bd/XYR0UN6DXQ =fg3P -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Q68bSM7Ycu6FN28Q--
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