ports/90199: Network configuration GUI recognises wireless ndis device as wired, thus making it useless

[Trond Gundersen]

>Number:         90199
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       Network configuration GUI recognises wireless ndis device as wired, thus making it useless
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
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>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Dec 10 17:30:03 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Trond Gundersen
>Release:        6.0-RELEASE
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>Description:
With GNOME: In Administration -> Networking there is a GUI tool for administering network connections. My device, which is a wireless pccard, which has it's windows driver wrapped using ndis (wrapper made using ndisgen), shows up as an ethernet connection (not wireless). Presumably as a cause of this, there is no field for input of the SSID, hence the tool is basically useless for such device.

The driver is for a pccard with the RT2400 chipset. I know I should fill in the environment box above, but since I can't connect to the net I would need to write the entire thing down on paper by hand (I don't have a printer either) and then type it in again. There is nothing wrong with the card itself, because I have successfully connected to the net through it two times using a combination of ifconfig and the network configuration in sysinstall. However I don't know what I did to get it to work.
>How-To-Repeat:
See above.
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