can I use wireless & wired cards together?

[Gary Kline]

On Thu, Jun 16, 2005 at 10:49:28AM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:37:21 -0700
> > From: Gary Kline <kline at tao.thought.org>
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> > 
> > 	My orig ^Subject line prob'ly should have read: 
> > 	"Can I just plug in a wifi card (and pull out my wired)?"
> > 
> > 	I'm assuming that my Intel 10-100 card is unplugged and 
> > 	that I have a wifi (say, AR5211) inserted; will I be able
> > 	to use my 600E at the library or Starbucks (or other 
> > 	hotspots)?  In other words, will a wireless DHCP 
> > 	configuration *work*?  If so, then it makes sense to
> > 	take my ThinkPad along when I go out.  
> > 
> > 	gary
> 
> 
> A much simpler question. The answer is "yes" with some caveats.
> 
> It assumes that the AP is transmitting a beacon (which a public system
> will) and no WEP. If this is the case, it should "just work".
> 
> You can probably just (as root) issue 'dhclient wi0' and it should do
> the trick. You probably want to be sure that your /etc/start_if.wi0 sets
> the ssid to "" and wepmode to "off".


	Once I'm out <wherever> and reboot with the wifi card in 
	place, where do I put the above lines?  Where is
	/etc/start_if.wi0 called from?  

	thanks,

	gary




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