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Operating Systems BSD OpenBSD and wireless Post 302152507 by Timmy66 on Thursday 20th of December 2007 03:43:40 AM
Old 12-20-2007
OpenBSD and wireless

I've just installed OpenBSD on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad T42) and since this is my first time with wireless networking in OpenBSD I'm a bit lost.

What I would like to do is connect to a wireless network using WEP or WPA. Where do I place the key and essid?
 

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IW(8)                                                                  Linux                                                                 IW(8)

NAME
iw - show / manipulate wireless devices and their configuration SYNOPSIS
iw [ OPTIONS ] { help [ command ] | OBJECT COMMAND } OBJECT := { dev | phy | reg } OPTIONS := { --version | --debug } OPTIONS
--version print version information and exit. --debug enable netlink message debugging. IW - COMMAND SYNTAX OBJECT dev <interface name> - network interface. phy <phy name> - wireless hardware device (by name). phy#<phy index> - wireless hardware device (by index). reg - regulatory agent. COMMAND Specifies the action to perform on the object. The set of possible actions depends on the object type. iw help will print all supported commands, while iw help command will print the help for all matching commands. SEE ALSO
ip(8), crda(8), regdbdump(8), regulatory.bin(5) http://wireless.kernel.org/en/users/Documentation/iw iw 7 June 2012 IW(8)
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