From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 17 12:58:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B0A716A4CE for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:58:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: from anduin.net (anduin.net [212.12.46.226]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6C02543D1D for ; Mon, 17 May 2004 12:58:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ltning@anduin.net) Received: (qmail 95477 invoked by uid 6759); 17 May 2004 19:58:25 -0000 Received: from ltning@anduin.net by anduin.net by uid 82 with qmail-scanner-1.20 (clamscan: 0.60. spamassassin: 2.60. Clear:RC:1(217.8.136.185):. Processed in 0.026137 secs); 17 May 2004 19:58:25 -0000 X-Qmail-Scanner-Mail-From: ltning@anduin.net via anduin.net X-Qmail-Scanner: 1.20 (Clear:RC:1(217.8.136.185):. Processed in 0.026137 secs) Received: from gatekeeper.in-space.org (HELO ?192.168.1.10?) (217.8.136.185) by anduin.net with SMTP; 17 May 2004 19:58:25 -0000 Message-ID: <40A91949.2080207@anduin.net> Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 21:58:01 +0200 From: Eirik Oeverby User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 (X11/20040504) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel O'Connor References: <200405161829.i4GITtj9059053@emboss.bossbox.com> <200405172122.35493.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <200405172122.35493.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Brian cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T4 Wireless issue (Evil Project) X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 19:58:27 -0000 Daniel O'Connor wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, 27 May 2004 04:02, Brian wrote: > >>Issuing ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.11 ssid APID netmask 0xffffff00 >> >>After this I get ndis0: link up and checking the AP logs I see it's >>connected. >> >>But checking ifconfig ndis0 has no ip address and when I try and give it >>one manually >> >>I get >> >>Ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists >> >>I don't run a DHCP server locally so I need to assign it an ip address > > > You can't have 2 interfaces in the same subnet. > > It's not letting you do it because em0 is colliding. If you do 'ifconfig em0 > delete' it will let you assign that address to ndis0. > Alternatively, specify /32 or add netmask 255.255.255.255 to the ifconfig line for the second (third, fourth) interface on the same subnet. That's what is done for jails, for instance. /Eirik