Help on the wireless document

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Thu Nov 3 15:55:39 UTC 2005


On 2005-11-02 09:49, Brooks Davis <brooks at one-eyed-alien.net> wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:20:16PM +0800, loader wrote:
>> I was working with Sam on a wireless howto, and I've tried to
>> finish documenting what I could (It's very incomplete). I need
>> some help cleaning it up, correcting my mistakes, and mergeing
>> it with the existing wireless section into the Handbook.
>
> Overall this looks quite good.  This will be an excellent addition to
> the docs.  One comments:
>
> In this bit:
>
> 	Then, let's bring up the interface:
> 	# /etc/rc.d/netif start
>
> did you names "netif start" or "netif start ath0"?  The second is
> probably better.

Yes, that would be better than trying to (re)start all interfaces.
It's what I'm using to start/stop only the wireless interface too
and it works fine :)

As for where this should go, I can always help make it a section of
the Handbook.  It can fit very nicely after the "PPP and SLIP" part
of "Network Communication".




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