Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 20:28:09 -0400 From: Glen Barber <glen.j.barber@gmail.com> To: Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NDIS broken? Message-ID: <4ad871310910071728t78a1fa80m2e1953865fd328f7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <F9AC9F6A-71C0-4BF9-A75B-D97DAE45D24C@mac.com> References: <F9AC9F6A-71C0-4BF9-A75B-D97DAE45D24C@mac.com>
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Hi On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com> wrote: > Folks > > Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1 > > Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network drive= r > for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as per the > Handbook under 7.2. > > Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to work = OK, > but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters, ifconfig returns = I/O > errors. > > For example: > > ifconfig ndis0 up =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 (back to prompt without err= ors, but then... > > ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0 > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument > > or > > ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs > > ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument > > Have a look at the 20080420 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING for 8.X. You have to change ndis to wlan with an additional change in rc.conf. HTH. --=20 Glen Barber
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