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Date:      Tue, 12 Feb 2002 17:13:42 -0500 (EST)
From:      Darien Kindlund <darien@kindlund.com>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        Marco Molteni <molter@tin.it>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Subject:   Re: Automatic SSID assignment?
Message-ID:  <20020212170712.M51202-100000@cti.2y.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020212143758.A961@cobweb.example.org>

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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



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