stable/8: iwn5100 , unable to get scan results

Nezmer bsd at nezmer.info
Thu Feb 25 21:11:12 UTC 2010


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 02:42:11PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote:
> 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

Forgot to say thanks.
Works flawlessly.


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