Sorry Felix, didn't notice you hadn't cc'd the list .. hoping you don't mind if I do, might save someone else from responding .. cheers, Ian
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:52:43 +1000 (EST) From: Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> To: Felix Friedlander <felixph...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: ath (AR9280) with nanoBSD On Thu, 30 Jun 2016 20:28:54 +1000, Felix Friedlander wrote: > > On 30 Jun 2016, at 19:12, Ian Smith <smi...@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 29 Jun 2016 11:51:40 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> It's there, it just doesn't show up in ifconfig anymore. > >> > >> sysctl net.wlan.devices > >> > >> if you create the interface (ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0) then > >> it'll show up! > > > > Just curious .. why was it considered a good idea not to have ifconfig > > show wireless interfaces? Won't this make for ongoing such confusion? > > As I understand it, it was to avoid duplication. You have to create a > wlanN interface to use a wireless device, so you would end up with > both athN and wlanN. Now ath (and every other wireless driver) donÿÿt > directly appear in ifconfig, you only have one interface. Ah, that sounds fair enough. I expect there'll be something in 11.0 release notes about that. > I believe there is a sysctl to list the hardware devices if you want. I guess that might be net.wlan.devices :) Ok, sorry for the side-track .. cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
