In article <slrnbe9jhu.leg.MLH@tiamat.goathill.org>,
MLH <mlh@goathill.org> wrote:
>On 9 Jun 2003 00:05:01 -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> MLH wrote:
>>>How is this supposed to auto-connect? 
>> 
>> I use the media keyword to set nwid and password in dhclient.conf:
>> 
>>         media "nwid xxx nwkey yyy";
>
>This worked! If possible, it might be nice to note this in the
>wireless doc page at netbsd.org. I never would have thought that
>dhclient would have passed all of those parameters via the media
>keyword. I thought it was limited to ifconfig's media keyword
>options.

No, it works fine. Unless your nwid has a space or other character
that the over-jealous dhclient parser decides that it needs to word
split.

Anyway,

I am glad it worked for you.

christos