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Date:      Wed, 25 Jul 2001 13:33:47 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ancontrol/ifconfig and WEP index mixup ?
Message-ID:  <20010725133347.A28360@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010725153337.B1738@pir.net>; from pir@pir.net on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:33:37PM -0400
References:  <20010725002334.A9937@pir.net> <20010724230332.C29046@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010725143903.A1738@pir.net> <20010725120512.A14936@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20010725153337.B1738@pir.net>

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On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 03:33:37PM -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote:
> Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> probably said:
> > Please try not using ancontrol at all and use ifconfig instead.=20
>=20
> I generally do use ifconfig now, but ancontrol is not working as
> advertised and it's aoutput appears to be wrong or at least confusing.

So, your saying the everything works correctly with ifconfig?  You only
need to set key 1, etc?  I was thinking there were problems regardless.
If I was mistaken, great.

> > There's really no point for 99.9+% of all uses
>=20
> Other than the things that ifconfig doesn't do ;) I change the power
> output of the card, for example.

True, I may actually add support for that one, even if other MACs don't
support setting transmit power.

> > and there may be some uncaught, bad interactions between ifconfig
> > and ancontrol.
>=20
> Isn't that a good reason to test them and try to fix them ?
>=20
> > This really should just work (FWIW, I'm tying this over a connection
> > using a 350 with WEP.)
>=20
> The connection does work just fine, it just appears that ancontrol is
> giving wrong/confusing output and isn't behaving as it is supposed to.
> I was trying to point this out so it could be fixed.

Please submit this as a PR.  Since the connection works, fixing it isn't
too high a priority since I'm hoping to remove duplicate functionality,
at least for 5.0.

-- Brooks

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