From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 7 13:57:21 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72FF11065673 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:57:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-iw0-f182.google.com (mail-iw0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 479178FC1C for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:57:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so417546iwn.13 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:57:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.231.172.75 with SMTP id k11mr923102ibz.4.1286459788017; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 06:56:28 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.231.166.77 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 06:56:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Eitan Adler Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:56:06 +0000 Message-ID: To: FreeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: if_bwn woes X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 13:57:21 -0000 On a fresh 8.1-RELEASE install ifconfig wlan0 scan results in no output and takes forever (ie - it hangs) ifconfig wlan0 ssid my_ssid dhclient wlan0 results in no link being discovered Here is some relevant system config and such to help diagnose the problem: #ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev bwn0 #ifconfig bwn0 bwn0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 2290 ether xx:yy:zz:xx:yy:zz media: IEEE 8.2.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g status: associated # cat /boot/loader.conf |head -2 bwn_b4_lp_ucode_load="YES" if_bwn_load="YES" #kldstat |grep bwn 2 1 0xc0fb6000 37248 if_bwn.ko 3 2 0xc0fee000 a26c siba_bwn.ko 7 1 0xc1078000 2cbd8 bwn_v4_lp_ucode #pciconf -lv | grep -A3 bwn siba_bwn0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x04b514e4 chip=0x431514e4 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vender = 'Broadcom Corporation' device = 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)' class = network #uname -rms FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE i386 On a Lenovo G530 -- Eitan Adler