Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 21:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From: "K. Greenwood" <k_greenwood1@yahoo.com> To: Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> Cc: Beecher Rintoul <alaskabeech@yahoo.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: WIFI DHCP Message-ID: <20050524043354.57176.qmail@web14121.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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--- Eric Schuele <e.schuele@computer.org> wrote: > Roland Smith wrote: > > On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher > Rintoul wrote: > > > > > >>I would like to use a wireless card as my primary > internet connection. > >>I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned > about setting up the > >>card to use DHCP. > > > > > > Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-) > > > > > >>I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm > >>connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP? > > > > > > Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network > Configuration). In short: > > - make sure that "device bpf" is in the kernel (it > is in GENERIC) > > - edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: > 'ifconfig_XXX="DHCP"' > > where XXX is the name of your wireless card. > > Additionally... you should man dhclient, > dhclient.conf, and > dhclient.leases. IMHO: `ifconfig_XXX="DHCP"` is > only part of the equation. > > You may have to craft a dhclient.conf file to help > your card associate > with its access point. The dhclient.conf file will > help you specify > things like the SSID, weptxkey, wepmode, mode (11a, > 11b, or 11g), > wepkey, etc Mr. Schuele was *very* helpful in the following post. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-October/059938.html Once I got a chipset that was supported by "Project Evil" (aka Mr. Paul's NDISulator) all was well. FYI, broadcom sucks... Intersil rules. *pciconf -vl* tells much. Good luck. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250
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