wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up

[Gary Dunn]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 09:19 -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <3a142e751001211403i1de3c389j70952fb6558f4de8 at mail.gmail.com>
>             Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> writes:
> : > My network uses no encryption but blocks on MAC address. Any chance the
> : > wlan is fiddling with this? The address displays correctly in ifconfig.
> : > Tonight I can try opening up the access point.
> : 
> : wi(4) is buggy, if it just works on 7.X fill PR, i dont have card so
> : can not fix it.
> 
> I've stopped even testing wi cards that I have...  I've got a bunch
> just laying around.  Ever since I moved to WPA for my home network, I
> don't have much use for them :(

Thanks for taking time to reply. As it turns out, the help on how to use
the built-in WiFi with iwn and wlan fixed the problem. My Lucent Gold
card is now exclusively for my Newton MP2100 -- one antique deserves
another. I should take a look at wpa_supplicant.

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