Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2008 16:10:06 -0300 From: "Flavio Junior" <billpp@gmail.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwn: Errors during make iwn.ko Message-ID: <58aa8d780809251210w7184b73dj8c0b987c324eee28@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <48DBBF35.9090502@math.missouri.edu> References: <58aa8d780809241601i724ec7c2p5fd13a3b18027a64@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809241837310.89093@cauchy.math.missouri.edu> <58aa8d780809250837gbf45204gb007c1ad46812ade@mail.gmail.com> <48DBBF35.9090502@math.missouri.edu>
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Very thanks Stephen.. With your recomendations and reading (again) iwn and wlan manpage I achieve get wlan working with -current drivers. I'd needed to recompile iwn drivers from current and reinstall it and create manually wlan0 device with ifconfig wlan create wlandev iwn0, but everything works. TA. -- Fl=E1vio do Carmo J=FAnior On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:41 PM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu> wrote: > Flavio Junior wrote: >> >> I'd tried to use that driver but, all operations gives me "unable to >> get *operation* results". >> >> dmesg shows me no error, and detects when I disable wireless button >> (iwn0: RF switch: radio disabled). >> >> I'm sure that have wireless network around (I'm writing this e-mail usin= g >> one). >> >> Does someone there using iwn driver? >> Maybe I have forget something ;/ > > As it happens, I am using the iwn driver. (That is why I happened to kno= w > about it so quickly - incidentally I'm sorry for my snappy tone last time= .) > > Are you doing all the "wlan" stuff that CURRENT now requires for wireless > cards - for example, in my rc.conf I have: > > wlans_iwn0=3D"wlan0" > ifconfig_wlan0=3D"DHCP" > > and all subsequent ifconfig and dhclient commands are done using wlan0. > > (And also, my guess is that the iwn driver you were using was a backport = to > FreeBSD-STABLE, which doesn't have all this wlan stuff, and hence is > incompatible with CURRENT.) > >
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