ath problems on 7.0 with ThinkPad X61s

[Dan Langille]

Folks:

The ThinkPad X61s has arrived. It has 7.0-RELEASE installed on it.

ifconfig ath0 <== never returns to the command line:

from dmesg:

ath_hal: 0.9.20.3 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413)

ath0: <Atheros 5212> mem 0xf7f00000-0xf7f0ffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci3
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx <== dunno why, but I masked those
ath0: mac 10.3 phy 6.1 radio 10.2


ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
         ether 00:1f:3a:08:xx:xx
         inet 0.0.0.16 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 0.255.255.255
         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
         status: no carrier
         ssid "" channel 165 (5825 Mhz 11a)
         authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 0 scanvalid 32767 bgscan
         bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi11a 4.5 roam:rate11a 12 burst



# uname -a
FreeBSD laptop.unixathome.org 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64


Ideas?

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Dan Langille

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