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Date:      Sat, 13 Aug 2005 18:09:40 +0930
From:      "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/net80211 ieee80211.c ieee80211_input.c ieee80211_ioctl.c ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_node.h ieee80211_output.c ieee80211_proto.c ieee80211_proto.h ieee80211_var.h src/sys/dev/ath if_ath.c src/sys/dev/ipw if_ipw.c ...
Message-ID:  <200508131809.53923.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <42FD7D9D.3020709@errno.com>
References:  <200508101622.j7AGMUah041503@repoman.freebsd.org> <200508131344.30433.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <42FD7D9D.3020709@errno.com>

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On Saturday 13 August 2005 14:27, Sam Leffler wrote:
> [Not sure why you're sending this to cvs-all]

Oops, freebsd-stable@ is probably better.

> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > ipw is still broken [for me]..
>
> Sorry but that wasn't the question.  I don't believe the commit you are
> responding to changed the behaviour of the ipw driver and that was what
> I wanted to confirm.

OK, same old behaviour then :)

> > [inchoate 13:20] ~ >sudo ifconfig ipw0
> > ipw0: flags=3D8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >         ether 00:04:23:a4:12:74
> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> >         status: no carrier
> >         ssid dons channel 6
> >         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100
>
> Someone reported the ipw driver at the author's web site works (better);
> you might try that.  Unfortunately the code in the tree is not being
> maintained so far as I can tell.

Hmm.. Maybe because it hasn't been broken :)
(ie it's older).

I will try and search for the date of breakage to provide some more=20
information.

It is somewhat annoying that both ipw and ndis are hosed and used to work o=
n=20
at least a basic level.

> I don't believe the ipw driver does honors any of the net80211 debug
> controls.

I see..

=2D-=20
Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
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are so many of them to choose from."
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