On 4/30/09, Jeroen Hofstee <freebsd.questi...@virtualhost.nl> wrote: > Paul B. Mahol wrote: >>> It appears that the tool assumes SSID are reported as >>> SSID<session>, which is not the case here. My list is similar as listed >>> in the handbook, >>> >>> Looking at ifconfig, it appears to me that the ieee80211 part queries >>> the kernel and prints the returned values. >>> I therefore assume that there are drivers, which report the session as >>> SSID<session> instead of session directly. >>> >> >> Whatever <session> means it is either not supported by NDIS or not >> implemented >> in ndisulator. >> > Perhaps I should explain my question a bit better. The <session> is just > mentioned as an example. > With the ndiswrapper the wifi is working proper and lists the available > network (only mine shown), e.g. > > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > DV201AM 00:13:d4:7a:16:b1 1 54M -51:-96 100 EP > .... > > The wificonfig tool _assumes_ the output of ifconfig would look like. > SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS > SSID<DV201AM> 00:13:d4:7a:16:b1 1 54M -51:-96 100 EP > .... > > My question is if there are wifi drivers which report the SSID like > this, instead of reporting them > directly as in my case and if so how the output is formatted in that case.
This is first time I heard about this, and looks like wificonfig tool bug. -- Paul _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
