Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:55 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Jeroen Hofstee <freebsd.questions@virtualhost.nl> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: output of ifconfig list scan Message-ID: <3a142e750904300743l7a154749r3b97ecb82f4c4f33@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49F98BB9.3020806@virtualhost.nl> References: <49F98BB9.3020806@virtualhost.nl>
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On 4/30/09, Jeroen Hofstee <freebsd.questions@virtualhost.nl> wrote: > Inspired by the long "modern installer" thread I had a look at PC-BSD. > > I am one of the "lucky" owners of a Broadcom, Dell Wireless 1390 WLAN > Mini-PCI Card > and added the ndiswrapper to support it. > > I noticed that the PC-BSD tray icon could not scan the network for SSID, > while ifconfig does return this list. It appears that the tool assumes > SSID are reported as > SSID<session>, which is not the case here. My list is similar as listed > in the handbook, > so I guess it is not directly related to the ndiswrapper. > > Looking at ifconfig, it appears to me that the ieee80211 part queries > the kernel and prints the returned values. > I therefore assume that there are drivers, which report the session as > SSID<session> instead of session directly. Whatever <session> means it is either not supported by NDIS or not implemented in ndisulator. > Can someone confirm above is correct? > If someone has a list with SSID<session> could I get a copy of it (e.g. > directly to my e-mail) so I don't break > other things while fixing mine. -- Paul
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