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Date:      Sun, 18 Aug 2013 12:29:48 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de>
Cc:        FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: wpi fatal firmware error with country de
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... hm, but if you do destroy, then re-create manually, does it work?
(Versus using service)


-adrian



On 18 August 2013 10:14, Dominic Fandrey <kamikaze@bsdforen.de> wrote:

> My system was built yesterday. I just figured I'm not using the entire
> frequency range available in Europe. This is a potential problem when
> AP frequencies are not under my control.
>
> FreeBSD mobileKamikaze.norad 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #0
> r254418: Fri Aug 16 22:15:55 CEST 2013     root@mobileKamikaze.norad:/usr/obj/HP6510b-91/amd64/usr/src/sys/HP6510b-91
>  amd64
>
> Setting the country works.
> # ifconfig wlan0 country de
>
> But it blows up when trying to bring up the interface:
> # ifconfig wlan0 up
>
> kernel messages:
> wpi0: need multicast update callback
> kernel: wpi0: fatal firmware error
>
> The wireless LED stays dark.
>
> To reactivate the wireless interface I have to call
> # ifconfig wlan0 destroy
> # service netif restart wpi0
>
> I can bring the interface up again without problems.
>
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