6.0 and wireless setup - documentation?

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Thu Nov 10 20:33:08 PST 2005


On Fri, Nov 11, 2005 at 02:58:10PM +1100, Michael Vince wrote:
> Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote:
> 
> >Hello!
> >
> >After upgrading my laptop (Thinkpad T41) to FreeBSD 6.0, I was ready
> >to try out the new wireless functionality.
> >My wireless router uses WPA, and I use dhcp on my network.
> >
> >I checked the handbook, the faq and did a search on Google for "freebsd
> >wireless wpa".
> >
> >1) Where are the documentation?
> >There are man pages for ifconfig, wpa_supplicant and wpa_supplicant.conf
> >(BTW, that man page fails to tell you that the file belongs in /etc),
> >but there are no "how to set up all necessary files and config for
> >wireless with WPA" articles anywhere (that I could find).
> > 
> >
> Did you check the secret master wireless acticle for FreeBSD? Its quite 
> good.
> http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/wireless/article.html
> Why its not in the handbook I don't know maybe its just not quite 
> perfect in someway I can't see but I say just chuck it in the main 
> handbook now.

I believe it's coming soon.

-- Brooks

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