From cc7df1d1f8605cc06f45180615d4a135383098a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Roy Marples Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:44:10 +0000 Subject: Document the preferance of wpa_supplicant, #192828. --- conf.d.BSD/net.example | 10 ++++++---- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'conf.d.BSD/net.example') diff --git a/conf.d.BSD/net.example b/conf.d.BSD/net.example index 4acee47a..77d0e7fc 100644 --- a/conf.d.BSD/net.example +++ b/conf.d.BSD/net.example @@ -106,11 +106,13 @@ #----------------------------------------------------------------------------- # WIRELESS (802.11 support) -# Wireless can be provided by BSDs ifconfig or wpa_supplicant +# Wireless can be provided by BSDs ifconfig (iwconfig) or wpa_supplicant +# wpa_supplicant is preferred, use the modules directive to prefer iwconfig. +#modules="iwconfig" -# ifconfig support is a one shot script - wpa_supplicant is daemon that -# scans, assoicates and re-configures if assocation is lost. -# wpa_supplicant is preferred +# ifconfig (iwconig) support is a one shot script - wpa_supplicant is daemon +# that scans, assoicates and re-configures if assocation is lost. +# We call it iwconfig to seperate the wireless setup from ifconfig. #################################### # HINTS # -- cgit v1.2.3