Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Dominique Goncalves
> > 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.

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Dominique Goncalves wrote: 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: According to this documentation http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/e

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Erik Nørgaard wrote: and create wpa_supplicant.conf: network={ ssid="MyWireless" mode="11g" } ofcourse there are more options see wpa_supplicant.conf(5), I just now see that I've used 11g incorrectly. Well, another thing that maybe someone can highlight: Say you configure two (or

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Nørgaard
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 wi

Re: Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Dominique Goncalves
Hi, On 12/7/05, Jon Drukman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 a

Thanks for FBSD6

2005-12-07 Thread Jon Drukman
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/confi