[136926] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 802.11g with WPA-PSK
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Feb 6 14:22:48 2011
Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 03:22:24 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Atticus <grobe0ba@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinN8MWR_t4YPAdaPUbynqp3H_XgSkAO0x_PKVSF@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>,
Andrew Ball <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
if it's running a recent net80211 stack, you'll need to create a vap sttion
interface first
eg, ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rum0
then do stuff to wlan0, not rum0.
Adrian
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011, Atticus wrote:
> Im not familiar with wpa_supplicant, but you can preface external commands
> to execute in ifconfig.* with !
>
> On Feb 6, 2011 1:08 PM, "Andrew Ball" <aball@students.prairiestate.edu>
> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have a NetBSD host that I would like to
> connect to an existing wireless LAN using a rum(4) interface
> (Belkin F5D7050B USB 802.11g adaptor). I have tried
> configuring wpa_supplicant via rc.conf but it does not seem
> to start and I don't know why. Is there some other way to
> launch wpa_supplicant, perhaps via ifconfig.rum0?
>
> - Andy Ball
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