Re: WiFi Tool for BSD

2018-04-05 Thread Felix Friedlander

> On 5 Apr 2018, at 20:21, Mateusz Piotrowski <0...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 1 April 2018 at 05:24, Alex Andrews  wrote:
>>> What would be really useful is a simple wifi debugging tool that
>>> could run through all of the steps necessary to get a wifi card
>>> working (check the driver is loaded and working, check "syctl
>>> net.lan.devices", then check /etc/rc.conf for the correct wlans_ and
>>> ifconfig_ entries, etc etc).  I imagine this would be a fairly
>>> simple task for someone with the appropriate knowledge/skill set,
>>> and I am sure others would find it useful too.  Any chance this
>>> might be considered?
> 
> I wonder if bsdinstall(8) would be sufficient. It is the tool, which
> configures your network connection during installation. I think it can
> be used to configure WiFi of a running system as well.

On a running system the equivalent is bsdconfig(8) - you can type `bsdconfig 
netdev' to get straight to the Network Interfaces menu.

- Felix

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Re: WiFi Tool for BSD

2018-04-05 Thread Mateusz Piotrowski
>On 1 April 2018 at 05:24, Alex Andrews  wrote:
>> What would be really useful is a simple wifi debugging tool that
>> could run through all of the steps necessary to get a wifi card
>> working (check the driver is loaded and working, check "syctl
>> net.lan.devices", then check /etc/rc.conf for the correct wlans_ and
>> ifconfig_ entries, etc etc).  I imagine this would be a fairly
>> simple task for someone with the appropriate knowledge/skill set,
>> and I am sure others would find it useful too.  Any chance this
>> might be considered?

I wonder if bsdinstall(8) would be sufficient. It is the tool, which
configures your network connection during installation. I think it can
be used to configure WiFi of a running system as well.
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