wireless DHCP + wep

[Pablo Allietti]

On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:09:11AM -0800, Beecher Rintoul wrote:
> On Thursday 18 August 2005 09:38 am, Pablo Allietti wrote:
> > Hi all  i have a question.

ok this work but not assign any ip ... and when i run the dhclient iwi0

in the /var/log/mesages give an error

dhclient: Can't Attach interface iwi0 to bpf device /dev/bpf1: Network
is down


any help??? please


> >
> > i configure a Intel 2200 wireless card and the system detect ok and load
> > in the start time.
> >
> > so. now i need to add wep Key and DHCP.
> >
> > is that possible to do in automatically.
> >
> > because rigth now i cant do dhcp and need to do a ifconfig blablabla
> > wepkey xxxxxx wepmode 0 any time when i restart my laptop.
> 
> In your /etc/rc.conf put:
> 
> ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"
> 
> Add the following file to /etc:    start_if.wi0
> 
> Add your ifconfig settings to that file:
> 
> ifconfig wi0 ssid whatever wepkey xxxxxx wepmode 0
> 
> Of course change wi0 to whatever driver your card uses. This worked for me and 
> should work when you reboot.
> 
> Beech
> 
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