Re: (starbucks) "ssid = tmobile" and 5.x (hit-n-miss)

[Christopher Black]

Andrew L. Gould wrote:

On Thursday 16 June 2005 11:36 pm, Bill Schoolcraft wrote:

At Thu, 16 Jun 2005 it looks like Andrew L. Gould composed:

Try adding "ssid tmobile" to the ifconfig arguments in
/etc/rc.conf.  If adding it to your rc.conf file doesn't work for
you, try removing the wi0 stuff from rc.conf and  execute the
following as root:

        ifconfig wi0 ssid tmobile
        dhclient wi0

You'll need to make sure that the default gateway and nameservers
are obtained from the DHCP server.

I hope this helps.

Thanks Andrew,

Yes, I've done the manual command but would like to try the
rc.conf options, so I'd be looking at:

ifconfig_wi0="ssid tmobile"
ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"

Does that look correct?

Thanks

        ifconfig_wi0="ssid tmobile DHCP"

The other option is to put the manual commands in an executable file at:
        /usr/local/etc/rc.d/tmobile.sh



Best of luck,

Andrew Gould

I'm not sure whether all ifconfig arguments need to be on the same line. If it doesn't work, try: That way the manual commands would be executed automatically at bootup. Caveat: The delayed network configuration may interfere with the loading of firewall rules; so you may need to add a line to the script to load your firewall rules after wi0 is up.

I believe it should be:

ifconfig_wi0="DHCP"
ifconfig_wi0_flags="ssid tmobile"

HTH

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