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uiii

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Registered: 2009-02-25

Posts: 27

How to connect wireless in new rc.conf

Hi,
I'm updating to new rc.conf file, but I dont know how to setup wirelles connection. Where and how can I set SSID?

Thanks Uiii

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: How to connect wireless in new rc.conf

you can't.

i suggest to read about netcfg. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Netcfg

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mekh

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Registered: 2011-01-31

Posts: 11

Re: How to connect wireless in new rc.conf

uiii
Not through rc.conf, but through rc.local.

# wpa_passphrase ssid "passphrase" > /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
# echo "wpa_supplicant -B -Dwext -iwlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf" >> /etc/rc.local
# echo "dhcpcd wlan0" >> /etc/rc.local

ssid - your AP name
wlan0 - wireless interface name