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Date:      Sat, 07 Nov 2009 17:49:35 +0000
From:      Vincent Hoffman <vince@unsane.co.uk>
To:        PstreeM China <pstreem@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: about Intel 3945 wlan card in Freebsd 8-CURRENT
Message-ID:  <4AF5B32F.6030106@unsane.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <2c66535d0911070756y2a95c16ds9ad3527c8e498f5d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <2c66535d0911070756y2a95c16ds9ad3527c8e498f5d@mail.gmail.com>

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PstreeM China wrote:
> hi , everyone :
>
>     some time ago , i use Freebsd7.2  and the wpi driver for my Inter 3945
> wlan card ..
>     after that , i upgrade to FreeBSD8-current ,but i find that my wlan is
> not work .
>
>    i want to know that is a bug or the driver is not wall on 8-current ???
>    anyone can tell me  ??  thank  !
>   

8.x and later uses a different format for the wireless interfaces. See
the entry dated 20080420 in /usr/src/UPDATING


Vince
> the /boot/loader.conf ;
> ####
> legal.intel_wpi.license_ack=1
> if_wpi_load="YES"
> wlan_load="YES"
> wlan_amrr_load="YES"
> firmware_load="YES"
> wpifw_load="YES"
> ####
> and after the command #/etc/rc.d/netif restart
> ###
> bsd# /etc/rc.d/netif restart
> wpa_supplicant not running? (check /var/run/wpa_supplicant/wpi0.pid).
> Stopping Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0 plip0.
> lo0: flags=8048<LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>     options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>     ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
> bge0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>     options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>     ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
>     media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>     status: no carrier
> plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> Starting wpa_supplicant.
> ioctl[SIOCG80211, op 98, len 32]: Invalid argument
> ELOOP: remaining socket: sock=5 eloop_data=0x28407140 user_data=0x2840e040
> handler=0x8069f40
> /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING: failed to start wpa_supplicant
> Starting Network: lo0 wpi0 bge0.
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>     options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>     inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x4
>     inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>     inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
> wpi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>     ether 00:18:de:bc:31:7b
>     media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>     status: no carrier
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>     options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>     ether 00:17:a4:d2:67:b6
>     media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>     status: no carrier
> ######
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