Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 22:36:37 -0400 From: David Samms <dsamms@nw-ds.com> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.1 RC2 Wireless Networking Broken Message-ID: <i2lgnm$p36$1@dough.gmane.org> In-Reply-To: <201007261009.02889.jhb@freebsd.org> References: <i2chjo$cc9$1@dough.gmane.org> <201007261009.02889.jhb@freebsd.org>
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On 07/26/10 10:09, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Friday, July 23, 2010 12:56:24 pm David Samms wrote:
>> I switched my Thinkpad T61p from FreeBSD 8.1 RC2 i386 to amd64 and
>> experienced a failure of the wireless networking. The setup is as follows:
>>
>> /etc/rc.conf
>> -----------------------
>> wlans_ath0="wlan0"
>> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"
>>
>> On boot the "wlan0" interface was NOT created. If I manually ran
>> "ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0", then everything was OK.
>>
>> The exact same setup (rc.conf, loader.conf, wpa_suplicant.conf) works
>> fine under FreeBSD 8.1 RC2 i386
>
> Hmm, the rc scripts are identical between i386 and amd64, and many people are
> able to use wlan's with amd64. Can you provide more details and ensure you
> don't have any typos?
Thank you for your reply.
No typos, the files were copied from a working i386 to amd64 via flash
drive. When retesting tonight with 8.1_release (new iso downloaded)
there was no problem.
It is safe to assume that I had a corrupted copy of RC2 which was not
downloaded as an iso, rather upgraded from 8.0 via cvsup. Perhaps I
received mismatched versions of some files. Unfortunately I no longer
have the exact same code set to test.
Below are the config files requested
-----------------------------------------
# /boot/loader.conf
#Nothing relevant...
# /etc/rc.conf
ifconfig_ath0="up"
wlans_ath0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
# /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
network={
ssid="nw-ds"
bssid=00:02:6f:3a:d5:10
key_mgmt=NONE
wep_tx_keyidx=0
wep_key0=xxxxxx
}
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