Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread viq
On 18/10/06, William Graeber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just received my 4.0 cd package today and was going through upgrading my system. I have a senao prism2 pcmcia card which is acting up a bit when I try to set the nwflag hidenwid option. The card allows me to set it manually by running

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread William Graeber
On 10/17/06, jared r r spiegel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:38:48PM -0400, William Graeber wrote: I have managed to gain a bit more information regarding my problem - I added an echo statement in /etc/netstart to get a copy of the command which was being run.

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread Tobias Ulmer
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:53:27PM -0400, William Graeber wrote: I'm just received my 4.0 cd package today and was going through upgrading my system. I have a senao prism2 pcmcia card which is acting up a bit when I try to set the nwflag hidenwid option. The card allows me to set it manually

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread William Graeber
It gives me the exact same error as well. I'm not sure if it is of much significance, but I have firmware 1.7.4 on the card. The machine is a soekris net4511, and it is somewhat unique because of the read-only requirements of the compact flash card. I really don't see how this could cause a

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 10/18/06, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:53:27PM -0400, William Graeber wrote: I'm just received my 4.0 cd package today and was going through upgrading my system. I have a senao prism2 pcmcia card which is acting up a bit when I try to set the nwflag

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread William Graeber
I had thought of doing this earlier - Just added nwflag hidenwid to a line below the initial one and it works as expected. I'll keep an eye out for this on the lists. Thanks for the help William On 10/18/06, Stuart Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/18/06, Tobias Ulmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-18 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 11:05:51AM -0400, William Graeber wrote: The up doesn't make a difference if I add it before the inet line :( output of sh -v /etc/netstart is pretty lengthy, but I can post it somewhere if someone would like to take a look. output of that is probably no

hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-17 Thread William Graeber
I'm just received my 4.0 cd package today and was going through upgrading my system. I have a senao prism2 pcmcia card which is acting up a bit when I try to set the nwflag hidenwid option. The card allows me to set it manually by running ifconfig wi0 nwflag hidenwid, however if I try to add a

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-17 Thread William Graeber
I have managed to gain a bit more information regarding my problem - I added an echo statement in /etc/netstart to get a copy of the command which was being run. I then tried to run it manually to see what happened and it received the same error (surprise). ifconfig wi0 inet 10.90.1.1 netmask

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-17 Thread Bryan Vyhmeister
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:53:27PM -0400, William Graeber wrote: inet 10.90.1.1 255.255.255.0 NONE nwflag hidenwid nwid /dev/null nwkey XxXx chan 1 mediaopt hostap it gives me the error: ifconfig: SIOCS80211FLAGS: Invalid argument I do not have a 4.0 system handy to try this on but I was

Re: hostname.wi0 nwflag hidenwid oddity

2006-10-17 Thread jared r r spiegel
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:38:48PM -0400, William Graeber wrote: I have managed to gain a bit more information regarding my problem - I added an echo statement in /etc/netstart to get a copy of the command which was being run. netstart, if has no args, runs thru the whole hostname/bridgename