There's no point in fixing the data rate of a wireless interface
except for development/debugging purposes.
So stop advertising these modes in ifconfig.
Shortens the output of ifconfig media considerably.
$ ifconfig iwn0 media
iwn0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
lladdr 58:94:6b:06:70:04
priority: 4
groups: wlan
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect
status: no network
ieee80211: nwid ""
supported media:
media autoselect
media autoselect mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11a
media autoselect mode 11a mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11b
media autoselect mode 11b mediaopt monitor
media autoselect mode 11g
media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt monitor
$
ok?
Index: ifconfig.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/sbin/ifconfig/ifconfig.c,v
retrieving revision 1.300
diff -u -p -r1.300 ifconfig.c
--- ifconfig.c 11 Sep 2015 13:02:59 -0000 1.300
+++ ifconfig.c 11 Sep 2015 15:27:55 -0000
@@ -3048,6 +3048,17 @@ status(int link, struct sockaddr_dl *sdl
for (type = IFM_NMIN; type <= IFM_NMAX; type += IFM_NMIN) {
for (i = 0, printed_type = 0; i < ifmr.ifm_count; i++) {
if (IFM_TYPE(media_list[i]) == type) {
+
+ /*
+ * Don't advertise media with fixed
+ * data rates for wireless interfaces.
+ * Normal people don't need these.
+ */
+ if (type == IFM_IEEE80211 &&
+ (media_list[i] & IFM_TMASK) !=
+ IFM_AUTO)
+ continue;
+
if (printed_type == 0) {
printf("\tsupported media:\n");
printed_type = 1;
