Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:48:39 +0000 From: Paul B Mahol <onemda@gmail.com> To: knowtree@aloha.com Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up Message-ID: <3a142e751001201548t782161d2ge1c50c798a9dba21@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201001202031.o0KKVKpU012342@yoda.pixi.com> References: <201001202031.o0KKVKpU012342@yoda.pixi.com>
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On 1/20/10, knowtree@aloha.com <knowtree@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. -- Paul B Mahol
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