Bug 90199 - Network configuration GUI recognises wireless ndis device as wired, thus making it useless
Summary: Network configuration GUI recognises wireless ndis device as wired, thus maki...
Status: Closed FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: Normal Affects Only Me
Assignee: freebsd-gnome (Nobody)
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Reported: 2005-12-10 17:30 UTC by Trond Gundersen
Modified: 2006-01-06 06:14 UTC (History)
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Description Trond Gundersen 2005-12-10 17:30:03 UTC 
With GNOME: In Administration -> Networking there is a GUI tool for administering network connections. My device, which is a wireless pccard, which has it's windows driver wrapped using ndis (wrapper made using ndisgen), shows up as an ethernet connection (not wireless). Presumably as a cause of this, there is no field for input of the SSID, hence the tool is basically useless for such device.

The driver is for a pccard with the RT2400 chipset. I know I should fill in the environment box above, but since I can't connect to the net I would need to write the entire thing down on paper by hand (I don't have a printer either) and then type it in again. There is nothing wrong with the card itself, because I have successfully connected to the net through it two times using a combination of ifconfig and the network configuration in sysinstall. However I don't know what I did to get it to work.

How-To-Repeat: See above.
Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2005-12-10 19:34:13 UTC 
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->gnome

Over to maintainer(s).
Comment 2 Joe Marcus Clarke freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-01-06 06:13:57 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Should be fixed in system-tools-backends 1.4.2.