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Date:      Tue, 9 May 2006 08:25:18 +0100
From:      "Jeff Rollin" <jeff.rollin@gmail.com>
To:        "Gregers Petersen" <gp.ioa@cbs.dk>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Wireless woes
Message-ID:  <8a0028260605090025j7a5447acl6b8ab63fdc068a27@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <8a0028260605090013g783ecb1ch9696bd98a2922c23@mail.gmail.com>
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On 09/05/06, Jeff Rollin <jeff.rollin@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> ifconfig reports interfaces available on lo0, fwe0, and rl0 (in reverse
> order). rl0 is the onboard Ethernet (wired) NIC, fwe0 the Broadcom chip, =
and
> of course lo0 the loopback interface.
>

Just for fun, I tried running various "ifconfig" commands on fwe0, such as
"bssid", "mode", "authmode". Various error messages were reported, mostly o=
f
the "SIOCS80211: Invalid argument" variety. I'm not all that bothered about
getting the internal NIC working at the moment, just an FYI on why I'm not
using it.

Jeff



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