Connecting to a Wireless (802.11) Network
Sales of laptop computers have exploded in recent years, and with it the demand for true mobile computing using wireless Ethernet cards and base stations and the 802.11 Ethernet standard, also known as Wi-Fi. If you have installed FreeBSD on your laptop, you will likely want to know how to connect it to your wireless network at home or at work. This can be a challenging prospect—there’s more subtlety to it than you might think at first, taking into account the authentication protocols and security precautions that are in place on well-maintained wireless networks. Yet while many things in the UNIX world are difficult, very little is impossible.
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