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afterboot.8: Start the daemons after configuring wpa_supplicant.

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.\" $NetBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.70 2020/08/24 12:29:30 nia Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.71 2020/08/24 12:35:48 nia Exp $
.\" $OpenBSD: afterboot.8,v 1.72 2002/02/22 02:02:33 miod Exp $
.\"
.\" Originally created by Marshall M. Midden -- 1997-10-20, m4@umn.edu
@ -431,14 +431,14 @@ Then, to make the system use it, put the following in
nameserver 127.0.0.1
.Ed
.Ss Wireless networking
To connect to a wireless network using WPA and DHCP:
To configure the system to connect to a wireless network with a password
using WPA:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Ic wpa_passphrase networkname password >> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
.Ic service wpa_supplicant onestart
.Ic service dhcpcd onestart
.Ed
.Pp
To connect to an open wireless network with no password, edit
To to configure the system to connect to an open wireless network with
no password, edit
.Pa /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
instead of using
.Xr wpa_passphrase 8 :
@ -450,6 +450,12 @@ network={
}
.Ed
.Pp
Then start the necessary daemons:
.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Ic service wpa_supplicant onestart
.Ic service dhcpcd onestart
.Ed
.Pp
To automatically connect at boot, add the following to
.Pa /etc/rc.conf :
.Pp
@ -458,7 +464,7 @@ To automatically connect at boot, add the following to
.Pp
While using
.Xr wpa_supplicant 8 ,
you can easily retrieve network scan with
you can easily retrieve network scan results with
.Xr wpa_cli 8 :
.Bd -literal -offset indent
.Ic wpa_cli scan_results