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Old 4th April 2009
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Originally Posted by tony333 View Post
I was wondering if that would work. and if so, what commands or programs do I need to do in order to connect wirelessly to an open or WEP encrypted AP?
As opposed to other operating systems which may require third-party supplicant applications in order to handle the encryption/decryption, everything that is needed (provided that the wireless chipset is supported...) is in the base OpenBSD installation. The manpages you should study are the following:A list of what wireless chipsets are supported can be found through searching through the following list:

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.c...=1&format=html

...which was generated by the following command:

$ apropos wireless

Note that this list is what is supported by -current which is very close to the upcoming OpenBSD 4.5. For 4.4, change the appropriate options at the above mentioned Webpage.

Likewise, if you are simply looking for an OpenBSD Live CD, note that jggimi (a leading member of these forums...) produces similar offerings. Information can be found at the following:

http://jggimi.homeip.net/

Last edited by ocicat; 4th April 2009 at 06:25 AM.
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