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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 11:23:54 +0000
From: Bruce Simpson <bms@incunabulum.net>
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Cc: Thiago Luz Basilio <elmofo@uol.com.br>, rpaulo@FreeBSD.org,
	Tobias Kirschstein <lev@nupfel.de>
Subject: Re: 802.11b broken in -CURRENT?
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Bruce Simpson wrote:
> ...
> Can anyone shed further light on this? I know that 802.11b sucks, but 
> there's a lot of it out there,
> and it just needs to work.

Please ignore 'broken'. I found that my 802.11b AP's minipci card had 
worked its way loose.
After rebooting it, I found I had to do the following to get 802.11b 
access point association to work:

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
ifconfig wlan0 mode 11b
ifconfig wlan0 channel any:b
ifconfig wlan0 ssid OpenWrt
ifconfig wlan0 down
ifconfig wlan0 up

Hope this helps!
BMS