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Date:      Thu, 26 May 2011 20:20:16 GMT
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/140796: [ath] [panic] Cannot attach (unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3) under 8, panic in 7.x
Message-ID:  <201105262020.p4QKKG8c022344@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR kern/140796; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To: Dalibor Gudzic <dalibor.gudzic@gmail.com>
Cc: bug-followup@freebsd.org, freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/140796: [ath] [panic] Cannot attach (unable to attach
 hardware; HAL status 3) under 8, panic in 7.x
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 04:12:12 +0800

 Nope, you need to use cloned devices, not ath0.
 
 ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 country Australia
 
 then do your stuff to wlan0, not ath0. :)
 
 
 Adrian
 
 On 27 May 2011 04:11, Dalibor Gudzic <dalibor.gudzic@gmail.com> wrote:
 > On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Dalibor Gudzic
 > <dalibor.gudzic@gmail.com> wrote:
 >>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrot=
 e:
 >>>
 >>> Have you tried freebsd-current? I've done quite a bit of work with the
 >>> ath driver in FreeBSD-current.
 >>
 >> Just did. It appears that card is working in HEAD, at least there are
 >> no failed messages. Here is the dmesg:
 >> ...
 >
 > Unfortunately, I cannot do anything with the card. I can 'up' it, but
 > when I try to assign an address to it I get:
 >
 > =A0 =A0 =A0ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
 >
 > ifconfig arguments were fine, everything is OK with vr0 interace. If I
 > try tcpdump on ath0 I get:
 >
 > =A0 =A0 =A0tcpdump: ath0: No such device exists
 > =A0 =A0 =A0(BIOCSETIF failed: Device not configured)
 >
 >
 > I guess I started to celebrate to early... :)
 >
 >
 > Dalibor
 >



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