RFC: Create a default wlan for wireless NICs

[Eitan Adler]

On 25 May 2018 at 14:36, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
> 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.

Yes please!

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Eitan Adler