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Date:      Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:42:11 +0100
From:      Bernhard Schmidt <bschmidt@techwires.net>
To:        Nezmer <bsd@nezmer.info>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: stable/8: iwn5100 , unable to get scan results
Message-ID:  <20100225134211.GA31135@mx.techwires.net>
In-Reply-To: <20100225131021.GA2500@mail>
References:  <20100225131021.GA2500@mail>

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On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:10:21PM +0200, Nezmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD so don't shoot me If I'm missing something obvious.
> 
> I built and installed stable/8 yesterday to try out the updated iwn
> driver. But every time I run:
> ifconfig iwn0 up scan
> 
> I get:
> ifconfig: unable to get scan results
> 
> How can I go about investigating this further?
> The needed module and firmware are loaded of course.

8.0 and newer use VAPs, you have to do:
# kldload if_iwn
# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# ifconfig wlan0 list scan



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