From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 18:29:12 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F55106568F for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:29:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from knowtree@aloha.com) Received: from relay.pixi.com (relay.pixi.com [206.127.224.101]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC008FC1F for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:29:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from yoda.pixi.com (yoda.pixi.com [206.127.224.41]) by relay.pixi.com (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.6) with ESMTP id o0LIT3wp023304 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:29:04 -1000 (HST) Received: from webmail.pixi.com (yoda.pixi.com [206.127.224.120] (may be forged)) by yoda.pixi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with SMTP id o0LIT3xR020721 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:29:03 -1000 Message-Id: <201001211829.o0LIT3xR020721@yoda.pixi.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org From: knowtree@aloha.com Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 08:29:03 HST X-Posting-IP: 141.190.32.71 X-Mailer: Endymion MailMan Standard Edition v3.2.19 Subject: Re: wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 18:29:12 -0000 On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:48:39 + 0000 Paul B Mahol wrote: > On 1/20/10, knowtree@aloha.com wrote: >> I have been using the same Lucent Gold pc-card for years, most recently >> with FreeBSD 7. Over the weekend I redid my Fujitsu T-1010 hard drive, >> Vista upgrade to Win7, FreeBSD upgrade (fresh install) to 8.0, and added >> Ubuntu 9.10. Struggling to get either boot0 or Ubuntu's grub to see all >> three, thought I would install grub from ports since it ought to have the >> menu info for FreeBSD.Seems odd that Ubuntu's automatic grub menu generator >> sees Win7 but misses FreeBSD, maybe my partition scheme is messed up. >> >> While manually fiddling with ifconfig my system would panic, consistently, >> on ifconfig wi0 up. This is a fresh install, no changes to KMs, no proc >> file system, just straight out of the box. Is there something I need to >> configure to get the wi driver working? The card is recongnized when >> inserted, the basic entry appears in the ifconfig listing. > > That is obiously bug, introduced with VAPs. > Do not touch wi at all, create wlan first: > # ifconfig wlan create wlandev wi0 > > Now you can do with wlan0 what you did with wi0 in older versions. Thanks, Paul. That fixed the panic. I read the man page for rc.conf and it does indeed say that cloning is mandatory in 8.0. The man page for wlan was not very helpful; ifconfig page is a gem but sooooo complicated. I still cannot connect to my network. ifconfig wlan0 ssid MYNET sets the ssid but ifconfig wlan0 up does nothing ... no carrier. It will go up with ssid unspecified (-), but then ifconfig wlan0 scan hangs until I do ctrl-C, and a "list scan" completes with no output. Perhaps this is due to more 8.0 newness -- ignorence on my part. Any suggestion about what to read? My network uses no encryption but blocks on MAC address. Any chance the wlan is fiddling with this? The address displays correctly in ifconfig. Tonight I can try opening up the access point. Thanks in advance! -- Gary Dunn, Honolulu osp@aloha.com http://openslate.net/ http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V