In article <slrnbe6m08.nhu.MLH@tiamat.goathill.org>,
MLH <mlh@goathill.org> wrote:

I use the media keyword to set nwid and password in dhclient.conf:

        media "nwid xxx nwkey yyy";

christos

>On 5 Jun 2003 23:44:05 GMT, MLH wrote:
>> On 1 Jun 2003 18:55:00 -0500, Michael Graff wrote:
>>> buhrow@lothlorien.nfbcal.org (Brian Buhrow) writes:
>>> 
>>>> 	I've had very good success with the Linksys WPC11 line of cards.  
>>>> these work with the wi(4) driver, and use the Intersyl prism II or III
>>>> chipset.  I've used the Version1, 2, 2.5 and 3 cards.
>>>> the newer cards are quite good in terms of their range, the older cards
>>>> less so.  
>>> 
>>> I've tried linksys and dlink and others, but I always end up going
>>> back to the Lucent (aka Avaya aka Proxim) gold cards.
>> 
>> Are there any problems with PCI adaptors working with an Orinoco
>> or Linksys WPC11? Would a Linksys WDT11 work for either?
>
>First, yes - the Linksys WDT11 adaptor works with a Orinoco Silver
>wireless card.
>
>Yesterday I set up NetBSD 1.6T with the above with a college campus'
>wireless network. Got it working, but there were a few problems.
>
>1) http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/wavelan.html is out
>of date. There are no -i, -p or -c options to wiconfig
>
>2) I can't get the wi interface to automatically connect. I could
>only get it to connect by manually issuing the following commands
>over and over in apparently no particular sequence, until it
>connected:
>
>$ wiconfig wi0 -D
>$ ifconfig wi0 media DS11
>$ ifconfig wi0 nwid <campus SSID>
>$ ifconfig wi0 chan 11
>
>(seemed channel 11 was the strongest)
>
>I set :
>-------------
>ifconfig_wi0="nwid <SSID> media DS11 chan 11"
>dhclient=yes
>-------------
>in rc.conf and it didn't connect
>
>I set ifconfig.wi to :
>-------------
>!/usr/sbin/wiconfig wi0 -D
>!/sbin/ifconfig wi0 media DS11
>!/sbin/ifconfig wi0 nwid <SSID>
>!/sbin/ifconfig wi0 chan 11
>-------------
>and it didn't connect.
>
>I added the following to rc.local :
>-------------
>/usr/sbin/wiconfig wi0 -D
>/sbin/ifconfig wi0 media DS11
>/sbin/ifconfig wi0 nwid <SSID>
>/sbin/ifconfig wi0 chan 11
>-------------
>and it didn't connect.
>
>It seemed that /usr/sbin/wiconfig wi0 -D was the best at triggering
>the thing to connect, but each of the above commands at one time
>or another did trigger the connection (after each, I checked with
>ifconfig wi0 for an inet ip address)
>
>On bootup, wi went through some multi-line output attempt sequence
>(I forgot and I'm 200 miles away right now) that finally gave up.
>
>How is this supposed to auto-connect? Is this indicative of a signal
>strength problem? (I know, I should have saved the output of wiconfig
>wi0 -D)
>
>I will say that even with these problems, the wi/dhclient software
>is pretty cool. If we could get it to auto-connect, it sure would
>be nice.
>