From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Feb 12 14:13:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (postoffice.mail.cornell.edu [132.236.56.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E8A1337B416 for ; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 14:13:39 -0800 (PST) Received: from syr-66-66-30-139.twcny.rr.com (syr-66-66-30-139.twcny.rr.com [66.66.30.139]) by postoffice.mail.cornell.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA13619; Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:13:36 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:13:42 -0500 (EST) From: Darien Kindlund X-X-Sender: dforce@cti.2y.net Reply-To: darien@kindlund.com To: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Marco Molteni , "M. Warner Losh" Subject: Re: Automatic SSID assignment? In-Reply-To: <20020212143758.A961@cobweb.example.org> Message-ID: <20020212170712.M51202-100000@cti.2y.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, M. Warner Losh wrote: > FreeBSD already works just fine without assigning a SSID by hand. I > go between 4 different wireless networks all the time without changing > a thing. I just do a 'dhclient wi0' and it just works. > > What are you asking for? As I had indicated, I don't use the Lucent/Orinoco "wi" drivers - rather, I use the "an" drivers that are associated with Aironet 340 Wireless Cards. On Tue, 12 Feb 2002, Marco Molteni wrote: > What you want to do is decoupled from SMN or any other scanner. With > the aironet card, you simply type > > ifconfig an0 ssid - > > and it will magically associate. Thanks! I'll give that a shot. -- Darien Kindlund darien@kindlund.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message