OpenBSD: Changing 104-bit WEP keys
Filed under: BSD
The 104-bit WEP key our home network uses has been in place since the 2nd quarter of this year. Time to change it.
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OpenBSD: Mounting a USB stick
Filed under: BSD
In the previous post, I wrote about mounting a USB stick on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. Here’s how you do it on OpenBSD. OS version is 4.3-current; the pen drive is still the same 2Gb Imation stick used in the last post.
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FreeBSD: Mounting a USB stick
Filed under: BSD
I keep forgetting basic stuff like this. So, here goes: I’ll be trying to mount a 2Gb Imation USB stick on FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE. All of this will be done as root. Yeah, I know, evil and all that. Mounting it as an unprivileged user will be for another post.
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FreeBSD: Scanning for access points with ifconfig(8)
Filed under: BSD
FreeBSD’s ifconfig(8) has a few nifty switches for manipulating wireless interfaces built-in, obviating the need for third party applications to do various things. The first of these that I ran into while configuring a FreeBSD-based wireless client is the list scan parameter. Of course, the manual page for ifconfig(8) should be the primary source for what this parameter does:
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OpenBSD: Wireless Access Point on a Unix router
Filed under: BSD
As promised, here we go:
This guide will detail the process of turning an existing OpenBSD firewall/router/gateway into a wireless access point. The resultant machine will then be able to provide packet filtering, routing, and other services to both wired and wireless clients.
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OpenBSD: Free of wires, free of wires. Thank God Almighty, I am free of wires.
Filed under: BSD
Generally a success story, yeah. But I’m too lazy right now to tap out a “How-To.” l’ll just run through some “points” as guideposts for anyone with a hankering to run a UNIX-based Wireless Access Point-cum-firewall/router/gateway:
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OpenBSD: OpenOffice makes it to the ports tree
Filed under: BSD
Checking out Undeadly, I ran across this item. Seems like OpenOffice has made it to the official OpenBSD ports tree at last. This means goodbye time for the cobbled-together efforts to make the suite run on our favorite OS. Sweet. While those past efforts were in the main successful, nothing beats having it there on the tree, officially.
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