Wireless PCI card setup

G. Held venusspamtrap at comcast.net
Mon Jan 5 11:52:26 PST 2004


>Here's how I set mine up:
>
>In /etc/rc.conf:
>ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"

No luck.  (Using ath0 as opposed to wi0, as is apparently necessary...)

>I next creat a file called /etc/start_if.wi0 with the line:
>ifconfig wi0 ssid somessid wepmode on wepkey 0xsomewepkey
>
>That's all I do. And it all works well.

Lucky.  ;p

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>Is your wireless router setup to be DHCP on the cat5 end?

It is.

>Chris

Thanks for your thoughts.


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