Re: wireless anyone?

[Robert Millan <rmh@debian.org>]

found 601803 8.2+ds2-2
tags 601803 help
thanks

It seems that disabled code wasn't the only problem.  Tagging bug as found.

2011/7/7 Zac Slade <krakrjak@gmail.com>:
>> # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
>
> So here's what I get running the above:
> root@pleco:~# ifconfig ath0
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>        ether 0:40:96:a3:24:dd
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>        status: no carrier
> root@pleco:~# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Bad address
>
> Need more info?  It looks like the wireless support is still... not quite there?

I'm not sure right now.  The other trace was abandoned when we
discovered that ifieee80211.c was being disabled.  I'd have to
investigate but it doesn't seem easy to do without suitable hardware.

-- 
Robert Millan