Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person

[Marcin Jessa]

On 29. nov. 2005, at 17.05, James Earl wrote:

> Hi Mike,
>
> Thanks, everything worked pretty good!  I didn't have alot of time
> before I had to give the notebook back, but I should have an
> opportunity to work on it over time.  Just for the record, here's what
> I ended up doing:
>
> I used the nicmond port to monitor the xl0 interface, which allowed me
> to unplug one device, and plug in the other without any problems.  I
> created a link on the GNOME desktop to the start_if.ath0 file and
> provided a number of commented examples.  GNOME had a pretty good
> network monitor applet (with minimal config capability) which showed
> the connection strength of the ath0 device and gave some good visual
> feedback.
>
> The only improvements that I'd like to look into further, which might
> make this setup easier for someone who doesn't know much about
> computers are:
>
> - A GUI configuration tool (which may happen as apps get ported to  
> FreeBSD)

This is what we intend to include in www.desktopbsd.net

> - No waiting at boot-up for dhclient to timeout
Having ifconfig_xy="DHCP NOAUTO" should fix it afair.


> - And the handling of situations where both devices are active
> (perhaps give one device a higher priority than the other?)

Search the archives, I think it was already discussed before.

Cheers,
Marcin.

>
> On 11/29/05, Michael Vince <mv at roq.com> wrote:
>> For FreeBSD 6 check out this wireless documentation
>> http://www.freebsdmall.com/~loader/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/ 
>> wireless/article.html
>> as well as the offical handbook one,
>> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network- 
>> wireless.html
>> That wireless device does appear to be atheros based so you wont  
>> need to
>> use the ndis driver with project evil but can use a native FreeBSD  
>> driver.
>>
>> I would recommend using dhcp setup with the wireless device, if  
>> you need
>> something more easy then that then you will probably have to roll  
>> your own.
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> James Earl wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm setting up a sales person's notebook with a wireless card.  This
>>> sales person travels around and usually stays in hotels.  He  
>>> needs to
>>> be able to connect to the hotel's internet connection whether it  
>>> be a
>>> wired or wireless connection.  I previously had him running OpenBSD
>>> with a Sierra AirCard (would've been FreeBSD but I couldn't get it
>>> working :).
>>>
>>> I picked up a D-Link DWL-AG660.  I currently have FreeBSD 6.0- 
>>> RELEASE
>>> on the notebook.  I see the DWL-AG660 isn't detected by 6-RELEASE,
>>> hopefully just because it needs to have the device ids added?
>>>
>>> I don't have much experience with running a wireless setup with
>>> FreeBSD so I thought I'd seek your thoughts on whether I should turn
>>> this guy loose with FreeBSD and wireless, or if I should just put
>>> win98 on it for him.  I imagine there may be cases where he'd  
>>> have to
>>> change ssid's depending on the hotel network he's connecting to...
>>> which may complicate things... although I see there's some GNOME
>>> wireless applets which may work with FreeBSD?
>>>
>>> I guess the key question is whether it's possible to set this up  
>>> to be
>>> user friendly enough for a non-technical person... the less
>>> interaction, the better?
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