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Date:      Sat, 9 Aug 2003 10:43:13 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: wi0_cmd: busy bit won't clear
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.44.0308091040080.29934-100000@paprika.michvhf.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10308091010260.10830-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>

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On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> On Sat, 9 Aug 2003, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 03:38:42PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > On Fri, 8 Aug 2003, Christoph Kukulies wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I just got that (wi0_cmd: busy bit won't clear) today when
> > > booting with my DWL-650H inserted.  I've seen it before also,
> > > so I wasn't sure if it was an issue with recent changes or not.
> > >
> > > I worked around it by removing it and then reinserting it
> > > and manually ifconfig'ing it.  My normal setup is to have
> > > dhclient run on it at boot up.  So try rebooting without
> > > the card inserted and then insert it and manually configuring
> > > it (if you haven't already tried).
> >
> > You mean remove the card totally ?
>
> Yes, physically remove it then boot.  Once the system is
> up, then reinsert it.  ifconfig is supposed to be used
> now instead of wicontrol.  Try setting the ssid first,
> then check to see that it got set, then give it its
> address and netmask:

The older prism firmware would lock up so hard it would take
a powerdown reboot or as you indicate above, remove and reboot.
Make sure the lastest available firmware is in that card.  I
have a card around here somewhere with that old firmware.  If
I get a chance later I'll dig it out and get the firmware rev.
and post it.

Vince.
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