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
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 12 20:20:00 UTC 2008
>Closed-Date:
>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.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


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