NDIS broken?

2009-10-07 Thread Jeff Dowsley 

Folks

Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1

Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network  
driver for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as  
per the Handbook under 7.2.


Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to  
work OK, but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters,  
ifconfig returns I/O errors.


For example:

ifconfig ndis0 up   (back to prompt without errors, but then...

ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0

ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument

or

ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs

ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument



dmesg reports that ndis0 is available as a Wireless-G Notebook  
Adapter after the ndis drivers are loaded.



Any advice?

JeffD


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jeff.dows...@mac.com



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Re: NDIS broken?

2009-10-07 Thread Glen Barber 
Hi

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Dowsley jeff.dows...@mac.com wrote:
 Folks

 Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1

 Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network driver
 for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as per the
 Handbook under 7.2.

 Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to work OK,
 but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters, ifconfig returns I/O
 errors.

 For example:

 ifconfig ndis0 up               (back to prompt without errors, but then...

 ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0

 ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument

 or

 ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs

 ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument



Have a look at the 20080420 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING for 8.X.  You
have to change ndis to wlan with an additional change in rc.conf.

HTH.

-- 
Glen Barber
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