Switching wireless networks: WPA <-> unencrypted

[Pietro Cerutti]

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Lars Stokholm wrote:
| I usually use two WPA encrypted wireless networks and I have
| wpa_supplicant.conf set up for that. In rc.conf I have
| ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP". It's working fine, but once in a while I
| have to use other, unencrypted networks and that presents a problem.
| How do I connect to these with the least amount of trouble?
|
| Right now it involves commenting out the line in rc.conf, restarting
| netif, manually configuring ifconfig and running dhclient.
|
| Surely there must be a better way to do this...? Preferably it should
| automatically fall back to using unencrypted networks, if no
| configured encrypted networks are available... or something like that.

wpa_supplicant.conf supports WEP and open networks as well:

# WEP network
network={
~   ssid="network_id"
~   key_mgmt=NONE
~   wep_tx_keyidx=0
~   wep_key0="WEPKEYHERE"
}

# Open network
network={
~   ssid="network_id"
~   key_mgmt=NONE
}

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