Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2011 16:17:20 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> To: Paul Beard <paulbeard@gmail.com> Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: wireless access point in FreeBSD 8.2p2 Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1108281612280.38755@wonkity.com> In-Reply-To: <6A3818F5-BF6D-4FEA-9B07-44E9C0F72438@gmail.com> References: <51754C95-3688-4B33-BD98-7DED5F28DC0E@gmail.com> <4E59BA7F.305@cyberleo.net> <A0F8C91A-97A5-45DF-9281-2E92A2718B8E@gmail.com> <4E5A4AEF.7050104@cyberleo.net> <6A3818F5-BF6D-4FEA-9B07-44E9C0F72438@gmail.com>
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On Sun, 28 Aug 2011, Paul Beard wrote: > One thing that has seemed opaque to me is that both ath0 and wlan0 > display when I run ifconfig and look very similar: makes me think they > might be stepping on each other. Or it's just one more thing I don't > understand :-( In 8.x, a virtual wlan0 device is created to speak to the actual device, ath0 in this case. It's normal. See wlan(4) and http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html.
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