[ath] IBM 802.11B B/G 39T0073 card doesn't work in 8-STABLE but worked in 7-STABLE

Don Lewis truckman at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 6 22:42:04 UTC 2010


On  6 Aug, Mike Tancsa wrote:
> At 03:59 PM 8/6/2010, Don Lewis wrote:
>># ifconfig ath0 up
>># ifconfig ath0
>>ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
>>         ether 00:16:ce:00:ac:a7
>>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
>>         status: no carrier
>># ifconfig ath0 scan
> 
> Hi,
>          I got caught in the same error.  The wireless stuff in 
> RELENG_8 is a bit different. You need to create a wlan interface on 
> top of the ath driver. Take a look at wlan(4)

Thanks!  I didn't expect to have to read /usr/src/UPDATING all the way
back to early 2008 ...



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