Unable to clone wlan device

[Vladimir Terziev]

Hi,

on FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE (i386) driven machine, with iwi(4) (Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG), i try to create a clone of the iwi0 device.

Here is the device info:

$ ifconfig iwi0
iwi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:16:6f:8a:ee:4b
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
        authmode OPEN privacy OFF bmiss 10 scanvalid 60 bgscan
        bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11b 7 roam:rate11b 1 bintval 0

$ ifconfig iwi0 list caps
iwi0=25818300<IBSS,PMGT,SHPREAMBLE,MONITOR,WPA1,WPA2,WME,BGSCAN>


When i try to create the clone device i get the following:

# ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwi0
ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument


I searched for a similar problem in the net, but haven't found anything meaningful.

What am i missing ?

Regards,

Vladimir

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