Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 14:34:00 -0700 From: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@bsd.hu>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: gkrellmwireless-2.0.2_7 failed on amd64 7] Message-ID: <46DDCF48.4060805@errno.com> In-Reply-To: <20070904203225.GA1895@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx> References: <1188892560.28297.27.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <20070904203225.GA1895@baranyfelhocske.buza.adamsfamily.xx>
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Szilveszter Adam wrote: > On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:56:00AM +0200, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > >> Hey list, >> >> a bunch of ports broke on recent CURRENT, similar to the log below. >> Who's responsible for this change - who should I nag to fix the ports? >> > > The commit that caused this is > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-all/2007-July/226628.html > > by thompsa. > > The log says that the ioctls that used to be used by wicontrol were > removed. It seems that several applications relied on this interface > (even in the case of non-wi cards/chips) probably because this used to > be one of the first such interfaces on FreeBSD and then just continued > working (TM). Unfortunately some ๖of the affected apps are esentially > abandoned (eg wmwifi) so I have no idea if the port maintainer can fix > them alone. But it would be nice, because now it is really hard to find > any wlan signal monitoring apps for FreeBSD apart from Gnome/KDE applets. > The old wi ioctl's have been deprecated for a very long time. There are replacements that should be used instead. The easiest thing to do is crib code from ifconfig. Samhome | help
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