On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 08:42:56AM -0500, Arun Hegde wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am writing a wireless network driver (with io-net framework: not io-pkt framework) where in i am able to register my
 driver with io-net and i am getting interface name as en0 in /dev/io-net. When i do ifconfig on my device i am getting 
the following error:
> 
> No such device : en0
> 
> As i know, ifconfig acts on divice via driver devctl function which is registered to io-net using 
net_registrant_funcs_t structure. So when i do ifconfig at least my devctl should get called which is not happening in 
my case.
> 
> Does this mean  My driver not registered properly with io-net?
> 
> Plz let me know.
> 

io-net learns of your driver via (io_net_self_t *)->reg().
The stack learns of your driver via the advertise packet you
have to send up: _NPKT_MSG flag set with payload of type
io_net_msg_dl_advert_t.  So either you're not sending up the
advertise packet or something is wrong therein.

-seanb