Setting up FreeBSD wireless for sales person

[James Earl]

On 11/29/05, Marcin Jessa <list at yazzy.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Thanks for the tips!  I hadn't thought of checking out DesktopBSD. 
I'll have to give it a try.