WPI (Intel wireless 3945ABG) strange behaviour

[Julian H. Stacey]

Hi Chris cc wireless@

> After reading quite some man pages, I finally have my laptop set up as 
> follows :
> /etc/rc.conf :
> ifconfig_wlan0 =" ssid myssid"
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="mode 11g"
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="-bgscan"
> ifconfig_wlan0 = "WPA DHCP"

( I prefer wired nets & only fumble with wireless when I must, but )
The above has multiple Bourne shell syntax errors.

> ifconfig_wlan0 =" ssid myssid"
................^..^	delete spaces
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="mode 11g"
................^	delete space
> ifconfig_wlan0 ="-bgscan"
................^	delete space
> ifconfig_wlan0 = "WPA DHCP"
................^.^	delete spaces

a test live with with /bin/sh:

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid"
ifconfig_wlan0="mode 11g"
ifconfig_wlan0="-bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
echo $ifconfig_wlan0

& see 3 previous assertions overwritten by the fourth. So try either

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 mode 11g"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 -bgscan"
ifconfig_wlan0="$ifconfig_wlan0 WPA DHCP"

or

ifconfig_wlan0="ssid myssid mode 11g -bgscan WPA DHCP"

Cheers,
Julian
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