RFC: Create a default wlan for wireless NICs

[Warner Losh]

On Fri, May 25, 2018, 3:29 PM John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:

> From the bikeshed department....
>
> The change at https://reviews.freebsd.org/D15481 would create a default
> wlan for wireless NICs by default.  The default wlan's ifnet name would
> match the name of the adapter (e.g. "iwn0").  Existing configurations
> would still be honored and people who need multiple wlan devices can
> still do so using existing configuration variables in rc.conf, etc.
>
> However, the out of the box experience on a new machine would be that
> 'ifconfig iwn0' would Just Work(tm) for wireless NICs as it does now for
> wired NICs, and you could just use 'ifconfig_iwn0="WPA DHCP"' in rc.conf.
> I think this is more consistent with how we present NICs to users in
>

Love it.

Warner

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