Re: wireless and auto configuration

[Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost>]

By the way, the only annoying issue is that, once you restart network 
using /etc/rc.d/network (one)restart, then a second wpa_supplicant 
process become active, without killing first one. If you continue to 
restart, then computer (notebook) sometimes freezes.

By the way, i wonder why KDE network manager does not work on NetBSD...

Regards,



Cem Kayali wrote:
> I've used wpa_supplicant for 'known' wpa/psk (aes/tkip) encrypted 
> networks, it works well... but it needs manual configuration. 
> Auto-configuration script would be great!..
>
> Regards,
>
>
> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 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.