Re: Oddity with an(4): Channel reported by ifconfig is wrong

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007, David Wolfskill wrote:
[...]
> an0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        ether 00:40:96:32:19:a9
>        inet 172.17.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255
>        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>        status: associated
>        ssid  1:lmdhw-net channel 5 (56992 Mhz Turbo)
>        stationname FreeBSD
>        authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpowmax 0 rtsthreshold 0
>        fragthreshold 0 bmiss 0 mcastrate 0 roaming DEVICE
> g1-1(7.0-C)[4]
>
> As you see, the an0 NIC (a PCMCIA part) is the only one in use (as
> the miniPCI wi0 still doesn't associate).
>
> I don't expect that this is a critical issue, but it could be confusing.

   Thanks for reporting, I happened to have an Aironet miniPCI.
Will look into this later.

-- 
Thanks,

Tai-hwa Liang