how to automate wireless connection

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pnguine

Hi all

I have finally managed to get my wireless connection going on my Toshiba Satellite 1800. I issued
Code: 
wpa_supplicant -i wlan0 -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
and
Code: 
dhclient ath0
from the cl in a terminal after setting up the wpa_supplicant.conf file following the wireless section in the handbook and other sources on the web. (I left the first terminal open because I didn't background the process and didn't want to take a chance on killing it, then ran the dhclient command in another term.)

My question is where do I put these lines so that they get run at boot time so the connection will come up automatically?
 
add to rc.conf

Code: 
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

Then /etc/rc.d/netif startup script will start wpa_supplicant and dhclient for you at every bootup.
 
Thanks. I've done that but haven't rebooted since (thought I'd let it run for a while before I lost it again). Other resources also suggested putting
Code: 
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
in rc.conf. Is that still necessary? And somewhere along the way I ran this:
Code: 
ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
Do I need to do that somewhere? I tried so many different things I don't know if that had anything to do with getting it working.
 
Looks OK. Had to reboot to try a new X config on the Satellite and the wireless came up perfectly. I'm now getting xorg with pkg_add (nearly typed apt_get :)).
 
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