Re: wireless and auto configuration

[David Brownlee <abs%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Jun 2008, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:

> What are the recommended tools and/or techniques for setting up wireless
> on laptop that may have multiple locations?
>
> I was thinking I could just put my nwid and nwkey in a /etc/ifconfig.rum0
> file. But what to do if I am using a different network? I don't want to
> do manually and this is not my laptop and I want it to be easy for the
> user.
>
> The "Using WaveLAN IEEE under NetBSD" webpage lists some pkgsrc packages,
> but they appear to be for viewing stats and not for connecting to
> different access points (automatically or manually).

        I used to use net/autonet which worked well until wiconfig -D
        stopped working reliably for me :(

        Now I tend to just use the wpa_supplicant that ships with NetBSD-4
        which works well for *known* networks, be they WPA, WEP or
        unencrypted.

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