Thanks for FBSD6

[Dominique Goncalves]

Hi,

On 12/7/05, Jon Drukman <jsd at cluttered.com> 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 all had various problems, such as:
>   unable to recognize/configure the wireless ethernet card, or the X
> server wouldn't come up properly.  FBSD6 worked basically "out of the
> box".  I had to create a custom script in rc.d to get the wireless to
> work on boot, but that was about it.
>
> 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 without my custom script.

You can use in /etc/rc.conf:

ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"

Read rc.conf(5) for more information.

HTH

Regards

>
> -jsd-
>
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