Re: Just obtained a wireless NIC

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/22/06, Petr Janda <elekktretterr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It uses the acx111 chip. I read the acx, acxcontrol manpages but some
> stuff I dont understand.
>
> 1) Loading firmware produces no output

After load the firmware, run:
ifconfig acx0 up

You can scan APs by:
ifconfig acx0 scan
(given you have run ifconfig acx0 up)

> 2) How to change channels?

ifconfig acx0 channel x
normally it is not necessary.

> 3) Where does all the configuration go so its saved for next reboot?

put it in /etc/rc.conf

Cheers,
sephe

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