Re: Webgear: "ifconfig ray0 nwid HOME" gives "SIOCS80211NWID invalidargument"

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.net>]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Barrie Spence:
> Can anyone advise of the correct syntax needed to set the network ID on a
> Webgear card? 

yeah, there was a bug in ifconfig, which was fixed semi-recently.
you may try -current, which works.

cu

> # ifconfig ray0 inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255  nwid HOME         
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211NWID: Invalid argument
> 
> # ifconfig ray0
> ray0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         nwid NETWORK_NAME
>         media: IEEE802.11 FH2 adhoc
>         status: active
>         inet6 fe80::200:8fff:fe48:3d7b%ray0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>         inet 192.168.0.100 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> 
> Even though it gives the error, the other settings are applied.
> 
> The card is detected as follows:
> 
> ray0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "WebGear, PC Card WLAN Adapter, Version 4.88 Jan 1999"
> ray0: firmware version 85
> ray0: 802.11 address 00:00:8f:48:3d:7b
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Barrie
> --
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