From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 30 14:43:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E50C6106566C for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f213.google.com (mail-bw0-f213.google.com [209.85.218.213]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 713068FC12 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: by bwz9 with SMTP id 9so1830395bwz.43 for ; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:43:55 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=ST9R2VtpsHyoFy0JJFvi3SuWvwcgt286V0Rm2GOk38I=; b=Qp190loyLdQQCpQgy4y7a6wzbucz2cRK9QW8UfuiCqxFI79xrv3pvmp+hJLsj+zLhV gUa4FNQYVqDqmZXEn+Cd8mZhtB2tc5oWSRZh6OR2+EMMVde7hiS6uQwnIkztpTLEbm9k sKW41k7MNQm9DxrejgqE7KvYLjeNkTTnrBoCg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=Xq1Nv85jTkVEiQMCltW/p+MlDoSh/MkgSCQQ1YQXf/n30CazQZWg13WNAFqH6ATBzS lJX6mWmzgoZoPbgzCwghlWIhsgInxSkvkg63NzYd0AazcJt+8tLJ16uUKTRAaxekMU5B tPCrPjcprbuFsmTTAX23ytyycEUoJtAB1oywA= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.239.132.134 with SMTP id 6mr86461hbr.157.1241102635310; Thu, 30 Apr 2009 07:43:55 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49F98BB9.3020806@virtualhost.nl> References: <49F98BB9.3020806@virtualhost.nl> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:43:55 +0200 Message-ID: <3a142e750904300743l7a154749r3b97ecb82f4c4f33@mail.gmail.com> From: "Paul B. Mahol" To: Jeroen Hofstee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: output of ifconfig list scan X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 14:43:57 -0000 On 4/30/09, Jeroen Hofstee 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, 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 instead of session directly. Whatever 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 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