From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 21 22:03:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C11BB106566B for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from onemda@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f211.google.com (mail-ew0-f211.google.com [209.85.219.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57BEA8FC13 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:03:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so556463ewy.33 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:03:54 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=D+93kqWO53z9/vFt/SIqA3FD9rUaeFFY+YVVILsK0mI=; b=HtSY9hGmkyiYS/xlj1W0QgLdS25ukgq9dSRiy72LGvUo9QnVk+QZg5cRHMmdo+q9P9 CtS0Ra6QOUX8o/yRmtAo05LDUs9mzVc/VZ3d1tI1qnbxS3AU3blVT8FsYOQq64A7iIL3 j0x6960d8zNI3bfJOxbbHqz2213AQObON2LXI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=eZ5KPPFfApL/S65YvrDBqycL+khaCwGGvl4px/xx1VVLa8r7vj+OaEzRAaRiVYQGx1 3XkAOd2AXzjwGroLlBOdFfVrfGbQT5QdPL8t5N6EpR58dTwSIi73Lk8ePRuziEZLWiM+ uxNw0vgRYgyVBAEEShWcA97J9AsLzFPIUTom0= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.38.208 with SMTP id c16mr1834028ebe.85.1264111433835; Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:03:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <201001211829.o0LIT3xR020721@yoda.pixi.com> References: <201001211829.o0LIT3xR020721@yoda.pixi.com> Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:03:53 +0000 Message-ID: <3a142e751001211403i1de3c389j70952fb6558f4de8@mail.gmail.com> From: Paul B Mahol To: knowtree@aloha.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi (Lucent) panics on ifconfig wi0 up X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 22:03:55 -0000 On 1/21/10, knowtree@aloha.com wrote: > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:48:39 + 0000 Paul B Mahol wrote: >> On 1/20/10, 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. > > 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@aloha.com > http://openslate.net/ > http://e9erust.blogspot.com/ > Sent from a Newton 2100 via Mail V > > > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Paul B Mahol