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Date:      Fri, 1 Jun 2001 16:06:42 -0700
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        Michael Lucas <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wicontrol && ifconfig after wireless ifconfig changes
Message-ID:  <20010601160642.A7224@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010601185847.A71176@blackhelicopters.org>; from mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org on Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:58:47PM -0400
References:  <20010601185847.A71176@blackhelicopters.org>

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On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 06:58:47PM -0400, Michael Lucas wrote:
> After updating to yesterday's current, my "victim" laptop's wireless
> card stopped working.
>=20
> It turns out that wicontrol wasn't setting the card correctly.  Using
> the nifty new ifconfig commands worked perfectly.
>
> This started right after pkh's changes to ifconfig to replace the
> various wireless control programs.
>=20
> If the intent is to have both *control and ifconfig working, I'll be
> happy to document exactly what isn't working.
>=20
> If the intent is to replace *control, should a note be put in UPDATING
> that users might have problems?

It should be working and I'd like to know what's not.  There is
functionality in wicontrol that won't ever make it in to ifconfig so
we're stuck with it and I wouldn't want to change it in -stable.

-- Brooks

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