freebsd stable - Oct 2009 - NDIS broken?

Folks

Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1

Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network  
driver for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as  
per the Handbook under 7.2.

Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to  
work OK, but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters,  
ifconfig returns I/O errors.

For example:

ifconfig ndis0 up		(back to prompt without errors, but then...

ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0

ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument

or

ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs

ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument



dmesg reports that ndis0 is available as a Wireless-G Notebook  
Adapter after the ndis drivers are loaded.


Any advice?

JeffD


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jeff.dowsley@mac.com

Hi

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 7:51 PM, Jeff Dowsley <jeff.dowsley@mac.com>
wrote:
> Folks
>
> Just upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0RC1
>
> Under 7.2, I was using an ndis wrapper to provide a Windows network driver
> for an old Linksys PCMIA card (non-ath). Worked beautifully as per the
> Handbook under 7.2.
>
> Sadly, under 8.0RC1, the process to generate the wrapper appears to work
OK,
> but when I attempt to set any of the card's parameters, ifconfig
returns I/O
> errors.
>
> For example:
>
> ifconfig ndis0 up ? ? ? ? ? ? ? (back to prompt without errors, but then...
>
> ifconfig ndis0 inet 192.168.1.105 netmask 255.255.255.0
>
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
>
> or
>
> ifconfig ndis0 ssid chcs
>
> ifconfig: SIOCS80211: Invalid argument
>
>
Have a look at the 20080420 entry in /usr/src/UPDATING for 8.X.  You
have to change ndis to wlan with an additional change in rc.conf.

HTH.

-- 
Glen Barber