wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/20/10, knowtree at aloha.com <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
> I have been using the same Lucent Gold pc-card for years, most recently
> with FreeBSD 7. Over the weekend I redid my Fujitsu T-1010 hard drive,
> Vista upgrade to Win7, FreeBSD upgrade (fresh install) to 8.0, and added
> Ubuntu 9.10. Struggling to get either boot0 or Ubuntu's grub to see all
> three, thought I would install grub from ports since it ought to have the
> menu info for FreeBSD.Seems odd that Ubuntu's automatic grub menu generator
> sees Win7 but misses FreeBSD, maybe my partition scheme is messed up.
>
> While manually fiddling with ifconfig my system would panic, consistently,
> on ifconfig wi0 up. This is a fresh install, no changes to KMs, no proc
> file system, just straight out of the box. Is there something I need to
> configure to get the wi driver working? The card is recongnized when
> inserted, the basic entry appears in the ifconfig listing.

That is obiously bug, introduced with VAPs.
Do not touch wi at all, create wlan first:
# ifconfig wlan create wlandev wi0

Now you can do with wlan0 what you did with wi0 in older versions.

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Paul B Mahol