From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 28 10:50:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4E4106564A for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 547748FC15 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m2SAo3TI043096 for ; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.14.2/8.14.1/Submit) id m2SAo36k043095; Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:03 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:03 GMT Message-Id: <200803281050.m2SAo36k043095@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.org From: "Jonas Wolz" Cc: Subject: Re: kern/119225: [wi] 7.0-RC1 no carrier with Prism 2.5 wifi card (regression) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Jonas Wolz List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 10:50:04 -0000 The following reply was made to PR kern/119225; it has been noted by GNATS. From: "Jonas Wolz" To: bug-followup@freebsd.org, jyrki.k@post.cz Cc: Subject: Re: kern/119225: [wi] 7.0-RC1 no carrier with Prism 2.5 wifi card (regression) Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 11:45:53 +0100 I recently did some more experimenting and found an workaround that works for me ("ifconfig scan" still doesn' work): When I use an old ISC dhclient binary from FreeBSD 5 which ignores the "no carrier" status and sends the DHCP requests anyway, I get an IP address from the router and ifconfig shows "status: associated" afterwards. (and the network works just fine) Manually setting the IP address seems not work, however (but this might be also my router...).