docs/120566: ifconfig(8) doesn't recognize 'inet' command when setting up wireless card

Remko Lodder remko at elvandar.org
Thu Feb 14 07:01:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, February 14, 2008 1:10 am, Yuri wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR docs/120566; it has been noted by
> GNATS.
>
> From: Yuri <yuri at tsoft.com>
> To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, yuri at tsoft.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: docs/120566: ifconfig(8) doesn't recognize 'inet' command
> when
>  setting up wireless card
> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:07:44 -0800
>
>  Doesn't it make more sense to have a freedom in the order of keywords?
>  Seems like logically for the most part order doesn't matter.
>  Maybe 'ifconfig' should be fixed instead being more intelligent and
>  applying all supplied arguments no matter what order they are supplied?
>

Perhaps, but mentioning it in the docs for now would at least make people
aware that this is (as you mention it) not working at the moment.

Patches welcome :-)
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