Re: wireless configuration

[Youri Mouton <youri.mout%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 24/04/16 09:23, Graham Jenkins wrote:
> With OpenBSD, one can completely configure a wireless interface by creating a file like:
> 
> == /etc/hostname.urtw0
> nwid 'My SSID'
> wpakey my_key
> dhcp
> ==
> 
> This is Really Neat if you are using USB wifi dongles .. it will only get actioned when you insert a 'urtw0' dongle.
> And you can have a similar file called /etc/hostname.urtwn0 which will only get actioned when you insert a 'urtwn0' dongle.
> No wpa_supplicant file, no entries for wpa_supplicant or dhclient in /etc/rc.local!
> 
> So one should be able to use a similar syntax in a NetBSD /etc/interface.urtw0 file. How can one accomplish this?
> 
> Graham J.

Have a look at the -M option in wpa_supplicant(8). You'll need
NetBSD-current.
http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?wpa_supplicant++NetBSD-current

You can use something like this (in rc.conf):

wpa_supplicant_flags="-B -M -i iwn* -c /etc/wpa_supplicant_iwn.conf -M
-i iwi* /etc/wpa_supplicant_iwi.conf"
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youri