WIFI DHCP

Roland Smith rsmith at xs4all.nl
Mon May 23 14:16:09 PDT 2005


On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 01:52:01PM -0700, Beecher Rintoul wrote:

> I would like to use a wireless card as my primary internet connection.
> I have read the manual and see nothing mentioned about setting up the
> card to use DHCP. 

Then you've looked in the wrong place. :-)

>I do not have a static ip on the access point I'm
> connecting to. How do I set the card to use DHCP?

Look at section 23.5 (Automatic Network Configuration). In short:
- make sure that "device bpf" is in the kernel (it is in GENERIC)
- edit /etc/rc.conf to put the interface in DHCP: 'ifconfig_XXX="DHCP"'
  where XXX is the name of your wireless card.

Roland
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