On 30 Dec 2006, at 21:05, David Young wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 08:38:06PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
>> 	Since updating to NetBSD 4.0_BETA2 (from NetBSD 3) I've
>> 	been unable to get wiconfig -D to work. I've tried with
>> 	ath0, rtw0, and iwi0 on two different machines.
>>
>> 	In all cases the ioctl() SIOCGWAVELAN loop times out without
>> 	getting any result.
>>
>> 	Increasing retries from 10 to 60 (sec) did not affect the result.
>>
>> 	Is there anything I should be looking at to try to track this
>> 	down?
>
> David,
>
> Did it work with ath, rtw, and iwi on NetBSD 3?  I did not think it  
> did.
> I only expect for it to work with wi.  Everything other driver is
> a toss-up.
>
> I have been saying so for some time, but here we go again: NetBSD  
> *really*
> needs to borrow the 'list scan' functions from ifconfig in FreeBSD.
> All of the kernel support should be in NetBSD already.  Borrowing  
> those
> functions does not require any 802.11 expertise.  Don't wait for me to
> do it, I haven't the time or the interest.
>

I spoke to Sam regarding this and produced a patch set (based on
FreeBSD, of course). However, I am unable to do anything with the code
since I don't have a supported card according to Sam, so I just left it.

Not too sure where the code is now, but it didn't take long to fix up.

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		Liam J. Foy
		<liamjfoy@netbsd.org>