I have been using an iBook since OS X came about but recently decided it was time to give BSD a try. I picked up a new TINY Fujitsu P7010 and now have it running FreeBSD 6 - current circa July

Wireless support was obviously a must for the laptop ( hence running CURRENT to get support for my Atheros card. ) As someone new to BSD wireless I was wondering if you guys could share with me some of your favorite tools for wireless use. I have been somewhat frustrated with the steps I currently take to discover new wireless access points.

To get wireless access:

1) Run Kismet, find some SSIDs that are open 2) Reboot! I can't seem to get my card out of Promisc mode otherwise 3) run ifconfig ath0 ssid = ENTERNAME (other commands as needed) 4) run dhclient

Are there any other options, I'd like to avoid rebooting after running Kismet. I feel like I must be missing something. ifconfig destroy won't work for some reason, I'm guessing its because the entry comes from Kismet rather than the ifconfig create command. Any other tools to see what access points are floating around out there?

I understand the bsd airtools contains dstumbler but it won't work with the Atheros chipset. Curious though, do you need to reboot after using dstumbler?

I've configured the kernel with ath_rate_onoe, using ATHEROS 5212 Super AG card.