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jmags

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Registered: 2006-03-07

Posts: 48

Some madwifi questions

I have an atheros 5005G card in my laptop which I have gotten running using madwifi. I'd like to ask some questions before I modify my rc.conf in order to activate it on startup.

The first question is, should I put "ath_pci" in the list of startup modules?

Next, I'm wondering if I need to list ath0 in the INTERFACES and the WLAN_INTERFACES lines in the network section, and where I should put the essid lookup? Or, to put it another way, should the network section of my rc.conf look like this:

# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
# NETWORKING
# -----------------------------------------------------------------------
HOSTNAME="daedelus"

lo="lo 127.0.0.1"
eth0="dhcp"
ath0="dhcp"
wlan_ath0="ath0 essid linksys"
INTERFACES=(lo eth0 ath0)
WLAN_INTERFACES=(ath0)

gateway="default gw 192.168.0.1"
ROUTES=(!gateway)