i finally got wireless working

Bill-Schoolcraft bill at wiliweld.com
Sat Dec 16 22:40:22 PST 2006


At Sun, 17 Dec 2006 it looks like Jonathan Horne composed:

> well, a day well spent, i finally sat down to get the intel 2200 wireless on 
> my ibm t42 working.  i have sucessfully configured it to attach to my WPA 
> encrypted wifi on bootup.  everything is otherwise working to my 
> satisfaction.
> 
> now, my questions are:
> 
> 1) how can i set up to access more than just my wireless network?  can this be 
> done at the command line, without rewriting my if_iwi line(s) in rc.conf?
> 2) can wireless configuration be set to automatically attach to preferred 
> networks first, then possibly any available open if preferred not available?
> 
> thanks,
> jonathan

Good work Jonathan,

As usual with fellow FreeBSD users, any information about how you got
past your problem is stuff Unix folks like me love to hear.  I actually
save success stories like yours to help me out with wireless issues.

I can only speak for myself but I'd love to hear how ya did it.

-- 
  Bill Schoolcraft <*> http://wiliweld.com

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday,
    lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
                -- Redd Foxx



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