IBM Thinkpad T4 Wireless issue (Evil Project)

[Daniel O'Connor]

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On Thu, 27 May 2004 04:02, Brian wrote:
> Issuing ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.11 ssid APID netmask 0xffffff00
>
> After this I get ndis0: link up and checking the AP logs I see it's
> connected.
>
> But checking ifconfig ndis0 has no ip address and when I try and give it
> one manually
>
> I get
>
> Ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): File exists
>
> I don't run a DHCP server locally so I need to assign it an ip address

You can't have 2 interfaces in the same subnet.

It's not letting you do it because em0 is colliding. If you do 'ifconfig em0 
delete' it will let you assign that address to ndis0.

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