change in ifconfig out put for wlan devices on -CURRENT

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Sat Mar 21 03:50:08 PDT 2009


On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Stefan Bethke wrote:

> Am 20.03.2009 um 19:51 schrieb Kevin Downey:
>
>> I did not notice a heads up about this, but recently (maybe in the
>> last few weeks?) wlan devices on -CURRENT no longer show information
>> like what ssid they are associated with. How can I find this
>> information now?
>> 
>> this what the current output looks like:
>> 
>> wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>> ether 00:1d:7d:78:2a:69
>> inet6 fe80::21d:7dff:fe78:2a69%wlan0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>> inet 192.168.0.197 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>> media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet OFDM/48Mbps mode 11g
>> status: associated
>
> Maybe it's the same issue as in this thread?
>
> <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2009-March/004813.html>

If that's your thread, it is. Updating to latest HEAD should have the
fix.  It would be great if you could confirm that everything is
working again with just a plain HEAD.

/bz

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