wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up

[Paul B Mahol]

On 1/21/10, knowtree at aloha.com <knowtree at aloha.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:48:39 + 0000 Paul B Mahol <onemda at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Thanks, Paul. That fixed the panic. I read the man page for rc.conf and it
> does indeed say that cloning is mandatory in 8.0. The man page for wlan was
> not very helpful; ifconfig page is a gem but sooooo complicated.
>
> I still cannot connect to my network.
>
>     ifconfig wlan0 ssid MYNET
>
> sets the ssid but
>
>     ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> does nothing ... no carrier. It will go up with ssid unspecified (-), but
> then
>
>     ifconfig wlan0 scan
>
> hangs until I do ctrl-C, and a "list scan" completes with no output.
>
> Perhaps this is due to more 8.0 newness -- ignorence on my part. Any
> suggestion about what to read?
>
> 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.
>
> Thanks in advance!
> --
> Gary Dunn, Honolulu
> osp at aloha.com
> http://openslate.net/
> http://e9erust.blogspot.com/
> Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org mailing list
> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile
> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe at freebsd.org"
>


-- 
Paul B Mahol