misc/120566: ifconfig doesn't recognize 'inet' command when setting
up wireless card
Yuri
yuri at tsoft.com
Tue Feb 12 20:20:00 UTC 2008
>Number: 120566
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: ifconfig doesn't recognize 'inet' command when setting up wireless card
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Tue Feb 12 20:20:00 UTC 2008
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Yuri
>Release:
>Organization:
n/a
>Environment:
FreeBSD xxx.xxx.xxx 7.0-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #2: Sat Feb 9 01:52:05 PST 2008 root at xxx.xxx.xxx:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
>Description:
I have Linksys PCI wireless card which recognizes as ral0 and works fine.
But when I follow instructions from
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-wireless.html
and trying to set up wireless access point many commands recommended in the
handbook fail, for example:
> ifconfig ral0 ssid freebsdap wepmode on weptxkey 3 wepkey 3:0x3456789012 mode 11g mediaopt hostap inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
> ifconfig: inet: bad value
This is not a show-stopper but a serious usability issue.
People who follow Handbook will fail miserably.
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