Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Petr Janda
It uses the acx111 chip. I read the acx, acxcontrol manpages but some stuff I dont understand. 1) Loading firmware produces no output 2) How to change channels? 3) Where does all the configuration go so its saved for next reboot? Cheers, Petr

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On 8/22/06, Petr Janda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It uses the acx111 chip. I read the acx, acxcontrol manpages but some stuff I dont understand. 1) Loading firmware produces no output After load the firmware, run: ifconfig acx0 up You can scan APs by: ifconfig acx0 scan (given you have run

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Petr Janda
Hi Sephe, Thanks for the reply. I got it working. In regards to rc.conf are there any examples on how to put SSID, WEP key, etc into rc.conf? Im actually using wpa_supplicant and it was a breeze. Perhaps the simplest way to make wpa_supplicant daemon start during boot would be by putting it

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sepherosa Ziehau
On 8/22/06, Petr Janda [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sephe, Thanks for the reply. I got it working. :-) In regards to rc.conf are there any examples on how to put SSID, WEP key, etc into rc.conf? ifconfig_acx0=ssid your_ssid wepmode on wepkey 0x?? weptxkey 1 Im actually using

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Thanks, You're a legend! :) FreeBSD seems to have ifconfig_acx0=WPA ... Don't what NetBSD has, but I think we may need to keep close to NetBSD for rc script So currently theres no rc.conf way to start wpa_supplicant? I have used /etc/start_if.acx0 in the past for these

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Petr Janda
Ok, so the line: wpa_supplicant -B -Dbsd -iacx0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf goes into the script and into rc.conf reads: ifconfig_acx0=inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 Will the script get loaded automatically or do I have to add something else into rc.conf? Though, still having all

Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

2006-08-22 Thread Sascha Wildner
Petr Janda wrote: Ok, so the line: wpa_supplicant -B -Dbsd -iacx0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf goes into the script and into rc.conf reads: ifconfig_acx0=inet 192.168.1.50 netmask 255.255.255.0 Will the script get loaded automatically or do I have to add something else into rc.conf? Should