Re: Wireless on start up

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 10:29:50PM -0400, Mark A-J. Raught wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:21 -0700, Roman Shakin wrote:
> > hello I need help with setting up my wireless card to be run on startup 
> > of the machene i am trying to use rc.config and it's only half 
> > working... can someone share a script or something like that. Or show me 
> > how they did it so my wi0 is set before the dhcp starts
> > 
> > 
> > right now I have
> > 
> > /sbin/infconfig wi0 wepmode on weptxkey1 wepkey is set directly from 
> > rc.config now I dont want to do that... i want it set before 
> > ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" so it actually works. How would I go about that
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> config it for DHCP in rc.conf such as ifconfig_wi0="DHCP" then create a
> file in /etc called start_if.wi0 and add the extras like
> ifconfig_wi0="ssid blahblahblah" I'm in linux right now so I don't have
> an exact example, but if you google for start_if.wi0, you should find
> plenty of examples.

Better yet, run FreeBSD 6.0 and just set:

ifconfig_wi0="ssid blahblahblah DHCP"

-- Brooks

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