Two questions: WLAN and FBSD Bootloader

[Andrew Humphries]

Okay, pardon me for doing this folks but rather than have two separate
e-mails I figured I might as well place both points in here that I am
having trouble with.

1. I run FreeBSD 4.8 on my laptop, very nicely I might add. Its on my
home network via 802.11b with the router utilising DHCP. Unfortunately,
I have to manually control the wireless device every time I boot up and
login so that it comes back onto the network, I assume this is because I
am doing something wrong that doesn't allow for DHCP. In my rc.conf I
have the line:

ifconfig_wi0=ssid WLAN

This works fine, on boot it is clearly scanning on that WLAN but it just
isn't locking onto channel 11 and associating, as it should. So
everytime I login I have to type dhclient wi0. Now, I've tried to add
something along these lines into the rc.conf, such as:

dhclient=wi0

and 

dhclient_wi0=YES

But to no avail. Can anyone point me to where I am going wrong and
perhaps show me the light?

2. My second problem, which isn't really a great problem (more of a
vanity thing really), is with the FreeBSD boot loader. On boot the
loader looks like this:

F1   ???
F2   FreeBSD

Default: F2

Now thats all fine and dandy, except the other OS on my hard drive is
Windows XP Professional. How do I alter the boot loader to reflect F1 as
being WinXP? I've read the man-page for boot0cfg and it doesn't appear
to offer what I need, moreover I see no point in fiddling with the
existing configuration of the slices. As I said, its mainly vanity.

I hope that someone will be able to answer my questions, many thanks in
advance,

Regards,

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Andrew Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Re: Two questions: WLAN and FBSD Bootloader

[Jud]

On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 23:47:39 +, Andrew Humphries 
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[snip]
2. My second problem, which isn't really a great problem (more of a
vanity thing really), is with the FreeBSD boot loader. On boot the
loader looks like this:
F1   ???
F2   FreeBSD
Default: F2

Now thats all fine and dandy, except the other OS on my hard drive is
Windows XP Professional. How do I alter the boot loader to reflect F1 as
being WinXP? I've read the man-page for boot0cfg and it doesn't appear
to offer what I need, moreover I see no point in fiddling with the
existing configuration of the slices. As I said, its mainly vanity.
I hope that someone will be able to answer my questions, many thanks in
advance,
See URL: 
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#CHANGING-BOOTPROMPT.  
If you would like to have WinXP named in the boot menu, you have several 
alternatives.  Section 9.10 of the same FAQ tells you how to use XP's 
bootloader to boot both XP and FreeBSD.  Or you can install Grub from the 
FreeBSD ports (Grub is very nice - read the online documentation 
*thoroughly* beforehand).  Or for something more automagic, try GAG.

Jud
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