6.0 and wireless setup - documentation?

[Eric Schuele]

Sam Leffler wrote:
> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>>
>> After upgrading my laptop (Thinkpad T41) to FreeBSD 6.0, I was ready
>> to try out the new wireless functionality.
>> My wireless router uses WPA, and I use dhcp on my network.
>>
>> I checked the handbook, the faq and did a search on Google for "freebsd
>> wireless wpa".
>>
>> 1) Where are the documentation?
>> There are man pages for ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf
>> (BTW, that man page fails to tell you that the file belongs in /etc),
>> but there are no "how to set up all necessary files and config for
>> wireless with WPA" articles anywhere (that I could find).
> 
> 
> The documentation leaves a lot to be desired.
> 
>>
>> 2) It seems that we are missing some infrastructure bits (or
>> documentation) in /etc/rc.conf. I can use 'ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"' in
>> /etc/rc.conf to tell it to start dhclient for that interface, which is
>> fine. But how do I tell the system to start wpa_supplicant? As far as 
>> I could find out, there are no "wpa_" knobs in
>> /etc/defaults/rc.conf and the /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant script is missing
>> documentation.
>> How is this supposed to work, actually?
> 
> 
> ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP"
> 
>>
>> I can get the wireless work manually, like this:
>> a) in /boot/loader.conf:
>>    if_ath_load="YES"
>>    wlan_tkip_load="YES"
>> (I got an error message that said the the wlan_tkip modulen should be
>> loaded manually for now)
> 
> 
> Yes, the crypto modules need to be loaded by hand for now.  There are 

I have:
   device wlan_wep
   device wlan_ccmp
   device wlan_tkip
in my kernel config file... is this improper?  Seems to be working 
without any problems.

> locking issues that make loading on demand painful and I never got 
> around to welding the crypto modules into the wlan module.
> 
>>
>> b) in /etc/rc.conf:
>>    ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
>>
>> c) run /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant start ath0
>>
>> But how do I automatically run wpa_supplicant on startup?
>>
>> I'm running 6.0-stable:
>> root at kg-jobbpc3# uname -a
>> FreeBSD kg-jobbpc3.kg4.no 6.0-STABLE FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE #0: Sun Nov  6
>> 01:33:12 CET 2005    
>> root at kg-jobbpc3.kg4.no:/storage/usr/obj/storage/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>>
>     Sam
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Regards,
Eric