Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 21:33:03 +0100 From: Dominique Goncalves <dominique.goncalves@gmail.com> To: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thanks for FBSD6 Message-ID: <7daacbbe0512071233q71e5608as8e47a975032f46f4@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <dn7el7$6dr$1@sea.gmane.org> References: <dn7el7$6dr$1@sea.gmane.org>
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Hi, On 12/7/05, Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com> wrote: > Just a note to say thanks to all the hard working people who created > FBSD6. I spent an annoying week trying to get some minimal > "lightweight" Linux distros to work "out of the box" on an ancient > laptop that I had lying around. They all had various problems, such as: > unable to recognize/configure the wireless ethernet card, or the X > server wouldn't come up properly. FBSD6 worked basically "out of the > box". I had to create a custom script in rc.d to get the wireless to > work on boot, but that was about it. > > basically the meat of the script looks like: > > ifconfig ath0 ssid "my wireless network" > dhclient ath0 > > > if someone can tell me what /etc/rc.conf options i need to set to > duplicate that, that would be cool. i played around with it for a while > but never got it to work without my custom script. You can use in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ath0=3D"DHCP ssid your_ssid" Read rc.conf(5) for more information. HTH Regards > > -jsd- > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.o= rg" > -- There's this old saying: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed him for life."
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