Subject: Re: kern/10719: wi(4): effect of wiconfig does not reflected back to ifmedia interface
To: None <itojun@itojun.org>
From: Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 07/30/2000 21:56:50
itojun@itojun.org writes:
> >Description:
> 	we can configure wi(4) interface in two ways - wiconfig(8) and
> 	ifconfig(8).  we see some inconsistency in queried configuration
> 	status from those two.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> 	# wiconfig wi0 -p 1
> 	# wiconfig wi0 | grep ad-hoc
> 	Port type (1=BSS, 3=ad-hoc):            [ 1 ]
> 	# ifconfig wi0 | grep media
> 		media: IEEE802.11 autoselect adhoc

There is an open PR#10424 with a fix included which describes the same
problem.

     -- Johnny C. Lam <lamj@stat.cmu.edu>
        Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
        http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~lamj/