Yeah I was surprised the author did all the setup necessary to get their wifi card working and then resorted to manually launching dhclient and wpa_supplicant.

Yeah I was surprised the author did all the setup necessary to get their wifi card working and then resorted to manually launching dhclient and wpa_supplicant. All the author needed to add to their /etc/rc.conf (or /etc/rc.conf.d/network) is something along the lines of: ifconfig_wlan0="up WPA DHCP" and then optionally add IPv6 (though the posted article seems to be preferring IPv4): ifconfig_wlan0_ipv6="inet6 accept_rtadv"