USB Wifi stick

[SolarCatcher]

Hi after a pause of around 1,5 years, I have again installed PC-BSD. Unfortunately, I am still stuck with the same problem: The configuration of an USB Wifi stick.

Under FreeBSD, this has always worked in /etc/rc.conf

ifconfig_rum0="up"
wlans_rum0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

And under PC-BSD it does configure the card - up to the association with the AP... but it does not do the DHCP polling. I have to manually "dhcp wlan0" in order to get a connection.

This is a virgin installation of Isotope. Can anyone recommend how to get automatic DHCP?

[drulavigne]

What is the ifconfig_wlan0 line on the PC-BSD system?

[SolarCatcher]

Hi Dru,

the semi-automatic configuration via PCBSD Control Center -> Network Configuration did not seem to work for the USB wifi card, so I replaced it with my configuration code in /etc/rc.conf, which had worked in FreeBSD for years (the one shown in my original question).

Thanks for any suggestions...

[drulavigne]

OK. Mine says
ifconfig_wlan0="SYNCDHCP"
and works.

[SolarCatcher]

Hi Dru,

sorry for the late reply (I was on several travels, lately): It worked! Many thanks!

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