IBM Thinkpad T4 Wireless issue (Evil Project)

[Eirik Oeverby]

Daniel O'Connor wrote:
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> On Thu, 27 May 2004 04:02, Brian wrote:
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>>Issuing ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.0.11 ssid APID netmask 0xffffff00
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>>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
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> 
> 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.
> 


Alternatively, specify <ip>/32 or add netmask 255.255.255.255 to the 
ifconfig line for the second (third, fourth) interface on the same 
subnet. That's what is done for jails, for instance.

/Eirik