Re: 802.11g with WPA-PSK

[Adrian Chadd <adrian () creative net au>]

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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