cvs commit: src/sys/net80211 ieee80211.c ieee80211_input.c ieee80211_ioctl.c ieee80211_node.c ieee80211_node.h ieee80211_output.c ieee80211_proto.c ieee80211_proto.h ieee80211_var.h src/sys/dev/ath if_ath.c src/sys/dev/ipw if_ipw.c ...

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Saturday 13 August 2005 14:27, Sam Leffler wrote:
> [Not sure why you're sending this to cvs-all]

Oops, freebsd-stable@ is probably better.

> Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > ipw is still broken [for me]..
>
> Sorry but that wasn't the question.  I don't believe the commit you are
> responding to changed the behaviour of the ipw driver and that was what
> I wanted to confirm.

OK, same old behaviour then :)

> > [inchoate 13:20] ~ >sudo ifconfig ipw0
> > ipw0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         inet 192.168.1.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >         ether 00:04:23:a4:12:74
> >         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> >         status: no carrier
> >         ssid dons channel 6
> >         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpowmax 100
>
> Someone reported the ipw driver at the author's web site works (better);
> you might try that.  Unfortunately the code in the tree is not being
> maintained so far as I can tell.

Hmm.. Maybe because it hasn't been broken :)
(ie it's older).

I will try and search for the date of breakage to provide some more 
information.

It is somewhat annoying that both ipw and ndis are hosed and used to work on 
at least a basic level.

> I don't believe the ipw driver does honors any of the net80211 debug
> controls.

I see..

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