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Subject: Re: More wi odd behavior
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On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:

> # ifconfig wi0
> wi0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>        inet6 fe80::205:3cff:fe03:86b9%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>        inet 142.231.19.178 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 142.231.19.255
>        ether 00:05:3c:03:86:b9
> # wicontrol
> wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Operation not supported by device
> # dhclient wi0
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Operation not supported by device
> wi0: not found

If you dmesg, is there a partial driver detach?  I saw that problem fairly 
frequently when I was using WEP a few months ago, but haven't seen it 
recently.  At some point it seemed like the driver got upset and basically 
detatched or partially detached.  Ejecting and re-inserting "fixed" the 
problem.

Robert N M Watson