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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--opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7Xy0qXY6L6fI4GtQRAjsfAJ4+ofvVqVxaryxDMGc2Rtb2jX3k6gCgvUcg XWYyR1o3M4oLmLe+233Qoss= =t2Mh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --opJtzjQTFsWo+cga-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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