Regression with ndis and rt2860 on 8.0-RC1

[Paul B. Mahol]

On 9/24/09, Christian Laursen <xi at borderworlds.dk> wrote:
> Christian Laursen wrote:
>> Paul B. Mahol wrote:
>>> On 9/23/09, Paul B. Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On 9/22/09, Christian Laursen <xi at borderworlds.dk> wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> Some days ago I upgraded my Asus Eee 1000H from 7.2-RELEASE to
>>>>> 8.0-BETA4
>>>>> and then to 8.0-RC1 as of this morning.
>>>>>
>>>>> Since the Ralink Wireless NIC is not supported with a native driver I
>>>>> have been using ndis for a long time on 7.x without any issues.
>
> I just made a discovery.
>
> If I create a wlan device with wlandevice ndis0, I am able to associate
> and get traffic through the interface.
>
> I did get one warning though:
> wlan0: ieee80211_new_state_locked: pending SCAN -> RUN transition lost
>
> If I read UPDATING correctly this is the way to configure wireless
> devices on 8.0. As this is my first 8.0 system I was not sufficiently
> aware of that.
>
> However, a panic is somewhat unexpected in this case.

Yes, there is still code path where vap is used when it is NULL.

-- 
Paul