----- Original Message ----- From: "Luke Kearney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 18, 2003 11:38 PM
> Hi There, > I have recently installed 4.8R on my IBM Thinkpad notebook which > fortunately includes a wireless NIC. The nic is recognised as wi0 for > which I am grateful as Linux did not recognise the card first time > around. Now I often move between networks and having to set the wepkey > and ssid etc etc by hand will become very tiresome very quickly. I was > wondering if any one can point me in the direction of a better way to > set these. I am guessing that this will still have to be done after the > boot but what do people use ? > > I was able to get the interface up and ping other hosts so no problems > there but can this NIC be set for dhcp rather than having to go through > the grief of setting everything manually ? > > Any pointers or links to howto are much appreciated. I haven't done this myself but I'd start with 'man wi' and 'man dhclient' HTH, Drew _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"