On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 04:36:22AM -0500, David Young wrote:
> I have just committed my port of FreeBSD's Atheros chipset driver,
> ath(4). The driver supports 802.11a/b/g multimode cards made by
> manufacturers such as D-Link and Linksys. Virtually every 802.11a radio
> manufactured today contains the Atheros chipset.

Wohoo! Thanks!

I have a couple of questions:

 * When I run "wiconfig ath0", I get:

wiconfig: SIOCGWAVELAN: Invalid argument
NIC serial number:			[  ]
Station name:				[ telstar.bjan.net ]
SSID for IBSS creation:			[ mordor ]
Current netname (SSID):			[  ]
Desired netname (SSID):			[ mordor ]
Current BSSID:				[ 00:00:00:00:00:00 ]
Channel list:				[ 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ]
IBSS channel:				[ 1 ]
Current channel:			[ 65535 ]
Comms quality/signal/noise:		[ 0 0 0 ]
Promiscuous mode:			[ Off ]
Port type:				[ 1 ]
MAC address:				[ 00:0c:41:16:a7:95 ]
TX rate (selection):			[ 0 ]
TX rate (actual speed):			[ 0 ]
Beacon Interval (current) [msec]:	[ 0 ]
Maximum data length:			[ 2312 ]
RTS/CTS handshake threshold:		[ 2312 ]

   What is causing the SIOCGWAVELAN error, and is it a problem?

 * I want to join a WEP encrypted network. I think the commands to
   bring the interface up should look like this:

   # ifconfig ath0 nwid mordor
   # ifconfig ath0 nwkey <hex key>
   # ifconfig ath0 up
   # dhclient ath0

   Firstly, is this generally correct? This is my first time with 
   802.11 on BSD.

   Secondly, ifconfig rejects my 26-digit hex key, presumably for bieng
   too long. Where should I look to fix this?

Finally, the system is -current from 8 hours ago. The new userland and 
kernel are in place.
-- 
Bruce J.A. Nourish <bjan+public@bjan.net> http://bjan.net