> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 10:10:51PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > In message <Pine.NEB.4.63.0512051124040.19726@angelic.cynic.net>, Curt Samp
> son 
> > writes:
> > 
> > >
> > >Ok, I see. So the basic value of an rc.d script would just be that it
> > >would make setup a little more obvious to newbies. Is this worthwhile,
> > >do you think? Or would it be better just to drop the idea and let users
> > >who don't know how to do this learn about ifconfig.iwi0 some other way?
> > >
> > 
> > Is there any way to do such initialization in a dhclient.conf file?  
> > That's how I set nwid and nwkey for my wireless cards.  It also has the 
> > advantage of loading firmware even for PCMCIA cards that might need 
> > such treatment.
> 
> Hmm, it should be possible to do that in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks.
> See the manpage for dhclient-script(8).
> 
> Bernd
> 
> 

I include the following in /etc/dhclient-enter-hooks to accomplish
the firmware load:

    case $reason in
    PREINIT)
            case $interface in
            iwi*)
                    echo "Loading $interface firmware"
                    iwictl $interface -k
                    iwictl $interface -d /usr/pkg/libdata/if_iwi
                    sleep 1
                    ;;
            esac
            ;;

    esac


Hope this is helpful...

/sjd