Re: wireless and auto configuration

["Chavdar Ivanov" <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 28/06/2008, Cem Kayali <cemkayali%eticaret.com.tr@localhost> wrote:
>
>  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!..

I wonder whether it might be interesting to have a look how NWAM works
under Solaris - now enabled by default with OpenSolaris (NWAM is
NetWork AutoMagic -
svcadm disable network/physical:default && svcadm enable
network/physical:nwam works rather well, sometimes you might have to
swap it and then back, or you have to remove /etc/nwam/known_wifi_nets
).

> >
> > 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.
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
>
>


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