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Date:      Thu, 30 Jun 2016 19:12:08 +1000 (EST)
From:      Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au>
To:        Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com>
Cc:        Sydney Meyer <meyer.sydney@googlemail.com>, "freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ath (AR9280) with nanoBSD
Message-ID:  <20160630190829.N11465@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-Vmom%2ByEKdV5WAUe_3Ww1kPvT1g8bEfv6CXXVeFdNnqfp8aQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:51:40 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:

 > Hi,
 > 
 > It's there, it just doesn't show up in ifconfig anymore.
 > 
 > sysctl net.wlan.devices
 > 
 > if you create the interface (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0) then
 > it'll show up!

Just curious .. why was it considered a good idea not to have ifconfig 
show wireless interfaces?  Won't this make for ongoing such confusion?

cheers, Ian



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