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I have read the man pages for ifconfig and my wireless card wpi in my case and have a decent understanding of their contents. This morning while at Panera Bread getting some coffee I attempted to connect to their network and was able to do but only after resetting my nic to its default setting (i.e., -wpa, -nwid, -nwkey, etc, etc) I re-read ifconfig and wpi and could find no mention of this being a necessity. It is probably common knowledge so I apologize for my ignorance.
Onto my question - is there recommended reading in order to gain a greater understanding of how networks and nic's work within OpenBSD. divadgnol67 |
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@ocicat,
Thank you for the recommended reading and the additional insight. divadgnol67 |
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Network configuration in OpenBSD is not friendly to roaming users which is not to be seen as a critiscm. A secure OS just does not hook-up with the first available router
One option is to have two hostname.wpi0 interfaces, ie one with no wpa or wep and another with what ever encryption your home router users. Rename the one you want to use to hostname.wpi0 while renaming the additional interface as something like home.wpi0. Restart your network with #sh /etc/netstart wpi0 |
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It seems counter intuitive to random join networks within range, in fact I believe a user should always configure this themselves.
I would consider it bad etiquette to just walk into someones house, and it should be bad wireless etiquette to join some strangers network and start spewing packets. |
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@shep,
thanks for the tip. i didn't know it was possible to have two hostname.if files. @BSDfan666, I agree, I do not want to join any wireless network willie nille. But, I do want to understand how to join a network when needed. Love the term "start spewing packets" I have decided to write simple shell scripts to connect to the various networks that I frequent. Thanks again everyone, divadgnol67 |
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