From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 8 00:28:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DEC4C1065670 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:28:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glen.j.barber@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70C7B8FC08 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 2009 00:28:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so5301459fxm.36 for ; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:28:09 -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=0VBq/bQ6zNgEsCr81imArjINh3WRvKFzHAZcDMPeecA=; b=UwJPkdZt0fyCRHPY0PUF1po8Fy/1r8DjYRy85UjOZykE7gQqUbOjJ3vbIv1WB32wNP Yh0puj4e0ReVn69oOqVE/lPUJt9PHEcLwRzG2aEEBFiMZU0YxYekd6azXf4/TJbdqPG3 /cuBMA/QlECz7CY4MXU2WW3jF2Dv420ojgHa8= 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=hwJAxxIr4lEfeCHTASA1siw8tE7W/pdCra0RIc3xFJuOufGP+wTTWExWGA+kY/HVlG hoPcoOBUYH/Z/x7pJGEapdsUGs3QokwzBETehFbbSswgrbBsbPk7/7Nwt2bpAtJF4YuJ kZR6GTar0Z9GZN81GPVTacHGE80dUzS52iy0s= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.223.27.194 with SMTP id j2mr162223fac.76.1254961689312; Wed, 07 Oct 2009 17:28:09 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:28:09 -0400 Message-ID: <4ad871310910071728t78a1fa80m2e1953865fd328f7@mail.gmail.com> From: Glen Barber To: Jeff Dowsley Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS broken? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:28:10 -0000 Hi On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Dowsley wrote: > Folks > > Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1 > > Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network drive= r > for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as per the > Handbook under 7.2. > > Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to work = OK, > but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters, ifconfig returns = I/O > errors. > > For example: > > ifconfig ndis0 up =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (back to prompt without err= ors, but then... > > ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument > > or > > ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs > > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument > > Have a look at the 20080420 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING for 8.X. You have to change ndis to wlan with an additional change in rc.conf. HTH. --=20 Glen Barber