8.1 RC2 Wireless Networking Broken

[David Samms]

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
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# /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
}