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Operating Systems BSD OpenBSD and wireless Post 302152615 by NelTu on Thursday 20th of December 2007 03:01:49 PM

12-20-2007

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Originally Posted by Timmy66

And since my first language isn't english I should choose something else? Why do we have all these forums then?
And you did you reply to this questions if you don't have an answer?

Since the details of how to run the operating system are in the man pages, if you cannot read those, it's probably a better idea to not use the system, since you cannot read the instructions.

I do have the answer, I even gave you the part you wouldn't find in the ifconfig man page. I replied to tell you OpenBSD isn't for people who cannot read the man pages, since it is expected that you read them, since they tell you everything. I even linked you to a webpage which gives an example of how to implement a wireless connection.

I would hope that webforums such as this are here for situations which the man pages do not cover, since people put a great deal of effort into making those man pages.

Now, man ifconfig, it will tell you how to input a nwid and nwkey. Or go to the link I provided, since it will show it to you.

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wireless

WIRELESS(7)						     Linux Programmer's Manual						       WIRELESS(7)

NAME

       wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions

SYNOPSIS

       iwconfig
       iwpriv -a

DESCRIPTION

       The  Wireless  Extensions  is  an API allowing you manipulate Wireless LAN networking interfaces.  It is composed of a variety of tools and
       configuration files. It is documented in more details in the Linux Wireless LAN Howto.
       The Wireless Tools are use to change configuration on the fly, to get statistics and diagnose those interfaces. They are described in their
       own man page (see below).
       Wireless  configuration	is specific to each Linux distribution. This man page will contain in the future the configuration procedure for a
       few common distributions (when I get the necessary info from them). For the time being, check the various files included with the  Wireless
       Tools package.

DEBIAN 3.0
       Debian 3.0 (and later) has integrated wireless configuration in their network scripts.

       File : /etc/network/interfaces

       Form : wireless_<function> <value>
	      wireless_essid Home
	      wireless_mode ad_hoc

       See also :
	      /etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wireless-tool
	      /usr/share/doc/wireless.##/README.Debian

ORIGINAL PCMCIA SCRIPTS

       If you are using the original configuration scripts from the Pcmcia package, you can use this method.

       File : /etc/pcmcia/wireless.opts

       Form : *,*,*,*)
		  ESSID="MY_ESSID"
		  MODE="Managed"
		  ;;

       See also :
	      /etc/pcmcia/wireless
	      File PCMCIA.txt part of Wireless Tools package

AUTHOR

       Jean Tourrilhes - jt@hpl.hp.com
       http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/

SEE ALSO

       iwconfig(8), iwlist(8), iwspy(8), iwpriv(8), iwevent(8).

net-tools							   12 July 2002 						       WIRELESS(7)