Re: HEADSUP: 802.11 vap support merged

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:57:27PM -0400, Ben Kaduk wrote:
> Hi Sam,
> 
> On 4/22/08, Sam Leffler <sam_at_errno.com> wrote:
> > From UPDATING:
> >
> >  20080420:
> >        The 802.11 wireless support was redone to enable multi-bss
> >        operation on devices that are capable.  The underlying device
> >        is no longer used directly but instead wlanX devices are
> >        cloned with ifconfig.  This requires changes to rc.conf files.
> >
> 
> Again, sorry for jumping in late.
> 
> Do I interpret this correctly as that it is unsupported, now, to
> do something like `ifconfig ndis0 up`?
> In my present configuration, I can do:
> ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ndis0
> ifconfig ndis0 up
> ...
> and get a useable connection, but:
> ifconfig ndis0 up
> gives me a panic (hand transcribed)
> Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
> ndis_setstate_80211

I can see why this would happen, can you try this patch.


Andrew