Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:58:18 +0800 From: Adrian Pavone <wingot@eftel.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Issue setting SSID Message-ID: <4464401A.8010708@eftel.com>
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I'm not sure on the etiquette of reposting, however, this post is now 23 pages down my screen, so I doubt anyone would see the original. This possibly means no-one knows, but if that is the case, would anyone be able to point me in the right direction for people that possibly do? ---------------------------- Hey, I've got an RTL8180 that I have compiled a module for using ndisgen. The first time I installed FreeBSD, this worked fine, with exactly the same version of the driver, and I was able to use it, however, the computer power ran out during a portupgrade, rendering /usr unuseable. Now that I have reinstalled FreeBSD from scratch (wiping the partition and reinstalling from the same FreeBSD6.0-RELEASE cds), I have recompiled the module using ndisgen again, and kldload rtl8180_sys loads the module (with ndis and if_ndis loaded), without any errors output. An ifconfig shows ndis0, including the correct MAC Address. Now, when I try to set the ssid with ifconfig ndis0 ssid wingot (the name of my home network), and then run another ifconfig, ndis0 still has an SSID of only "". I have also reinstalled the system another time since, and the same issue is occuring. If anyone knows of a non-ndis version of this driver already available for FreeBSD (I know NetBSD has one), can they please point me in the correct direction, but otherwise, does anyone have any idea why the wireless device will not accept an SSID with ifconfig? No output is returned at any stage indicating any issues, and I have looked in /var/log and cannot find any problems logged. Any help would be greatly appreciated, Adrian
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