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Old 24th October 2015
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Before hoping in the unknown,
I would like to know a sure way, to access a crypted wifi network in command line. Do the tools ifconfig, iwlist, and iwconfig work also on netbds ? I think the first has an equivalent, but I can't see the two others.
Can I connect to a wifi network without GUI ? Or maybe there's already a standar desktop environnement on NBSD 7 ?

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Its easy like on other systems. Configure wpa_supplicant(wpa_supplicant.conf), start the deamon and connect dhclient with the right interface.
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Other useful tools in the base are ifconfig(8) and wlanctl(8).

For example, if the wireless interface is athn0,

# ifconfig athn0 up
# ifconfig athn0 list scan

will show local wifi networks.
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NetBSD - How to use wpa_supplicant

You can also save some typing by generating your /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf by redirecting the output of wpa_passphrase(8) into /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf

# wpa_passphrase YourSSID Your PassPhrase >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
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thanks. I'll try right away, after i'm also sure I know how to partition a pre-existing windows installed disk. That promised to somewhat more insecure.
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As GUI you can test dhcpd-gtk, but you will need to change permsissions for /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/dhcpcd.conf in order the program can write in them.
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Maybe too late but if you configured wpa_supplicant correct you can also use wpa_cli.
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