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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--TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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 --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE7GCACXY6L6fI4GtQRAonKAJwInFd0ie/qtvrnvoL2QqoibdOFxQCgvjWj po3UHyyftPGz8M45OhgtwnE= =CvJD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --TB36FDmn/VVEgNH/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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