Re: 6.0-RC1: ifconfig reporting bad info when using ndis0 & WPA

From: Janet Sullivan (ciscogeek_at_bgp4.net)
Date: 10/28/05

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    Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 07:44:52 -0700
To: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>

    Bill Paul wrote:

    >> The problem is that the connection is actually on channel 11, not
    >> channel 1, and its using WPA.
    >>
    >> Is this a known issue?
    >
    > for now I thought people would be more interested
    > in actually having WPA and WPA2 actually work, and wouldn't mind so
    > much that ifconfig didn't always report precisely the right state
    > info at all times.
    >
    > I can probably fix this, but it'll have to wait until after the
    > release is cut before I can merge it into 6.x.

    No problem, I'm very happy to have WPA support for ndis! (Thank you,
    thank you, thank you!) Perhaps this little issue should be mentioned as
    an errata entry or heads up to people trying to use ndis with WPA on
    6.0-release, though.

    > Out of curiosity, what card do you have?

    I have a Linksys WPC54GS.
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