Thanks for FBSD6

[Erik Nørgaard]

Dominique Goncalves wrote:
>>>You can use in /etc/rc.conf:
>>>
>>>ifconfig_ath0="DHCP ssid your_ssid"
>>
>>That's FreeBSD 5.X and prior way of doing it. The suggested way to
>>config your wirerless is with wpa_supplicant(8). In rc.conf add:
> 
> According to this documentation
> http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
> this syntax is ok on 6.0, but I don't know if the order of arguments
> have an importance.

Yes, you're right, it works - I'm not sure of the order either. What 
doesn't work anymore is the "ancient" posibility of including these 
options in dhclient.conf

However, wpa_supplicant is needed to handle encryption keys etc. And 
then comes the neat feature of supporting multiple networks.

Cheers, Erik


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