Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:50:28 -0800 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Is it possible that modern wireless card only supports WPA and not WEP or this is a bug in the driver? Message-ID: <47C5F744.8020608@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <47C5F356.3000101@FreeBSD.org> References: <1204146470.47c5d1267ceee@webmail.rawbw.com> <47C5D8F6.20608@errno.com> <1204149622.47c5dd76995ba@webmail.rawbw.com> <47C5F356.3000101@FreeBSD.org>
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Pietro Cerutti wrote: > It wouldn't make sense. Flags are used to specify capabilities of the > > interface, not things provided by the operating system. > > This is very confusing to user. User is assumed to have this bit of knowledge that WEP flag actually means only hardware support, not support in general. On another note WEP is actually supported by interface but driver authors didn't bother to use it. So WEP flag doesn't represent actual capabilities of the interface and this is again confusing. When I type 'ifconfig <iface> ...' I am mostly interested what can I use from that side, not what is supported by hardware. Is there any way to know what is logically supported by network interface as passed to 'ifconfig' vs. what is supported by hardware interface? Yuri
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