Date: Mon, 11 May 2009 14:33:14 +0100 From: Thomas Sparrevohn <Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Cc: Sevan / Venture37 <venture37@gmail.com>, Andrew Thompson <thompsa@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: rum(4) not working on 8-CURRENT Message-ID: <200905111433.14298.Thomas.Sparrevohn@btinternet.com> In-Reply-To: <20090510204757.GA45375@citylink.fud.org.nz> References: <4A072AF0.2000903@gmail.com> <20090510204757.GA45375@citylink.fud.org.nz>
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On Sunday 10 May 2009 21:47:57 Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2009 at 08:28:48PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote: > > Hi > > I've installed a fresh copy of 8-CURRENT 05/09 AMD64 snapshot on my laptop > > which has a ralink pci express mini card, the device is detected by the > > kernel correctly & the rum driver attaches however the card doesn't work, > > ifconfig rum0 scan or list scan results in: > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > > You need to create a wlan pseudo device and operate on that > > # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev rum0 up > > If you still have problems then enable debugging with 'wlandebug > state+scan' and then down/up the interface. > > > Andrew > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > The rum driver is very flacky on CURRENT - on my machine a "make fetchindex" makes the driver freeze and I have to do a ifconfig wlan0 down/ifconfig wlan0 up in order to get it running again. It seems that it has something to do with "fetch" that triggers the issue
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