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Cc: Jon Drukman <jsd@cluttered.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Thanks for FBSD6
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Dominique Goncalves wrote:

>>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="DHCP ssid your_ssid"

That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to 
config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:

wpa_suplicant_enable="YES"
ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"

and create wpa_supplicant.conf:

network={
     ssid="MyWireless"
     mode="11g"
}

The neat thing is that you can configure multiple networks and 
wpa_supplicant will try them in order.

Note that dhclient was replaced with the new OpenBSD implementation in 
FBSD6, and wpa_supplicant introduced to handle association with wireless 
networks.

Cheers, Erik
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