kern/140796: [ath] [panic] Cannot attach (unable to attach hardware; HAL status 3) under 8, panic in 7.x

[Adrian Chadd]

Nope, you need to use cloned devices, not ath0.

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 country Australia

then do your stuff to wlan0, not ath0. :)


Adrian

On 27 May 2011 04:11, Dalibor Gudzic <dalibor.gudzic at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 9:21 PM, Dalibor Gudzic
> <dalibor.gudzic at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 2:29 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Have you tried freebsd-current? I've done quite a bit of work with the
>>> ath driver in FreeBSD-current.
>>
>> Just did. It appears that card is working in HEAD, at least there are
>> no failed messages. Here is the dmesg:
>> ...
>
> Unfortunately, I cannot do anything with the card. I can 'up' it, but
> when I try to assign an address to it I get:
>
>      ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Invalid argument
>
> ifconfig arguments were fine, everything is OK with vr0 interace. If I
> try tcpdump on ath0 I get:
>
>      tcpdump: ath0: No such device exists
>      (BIOCSETIF failed: Device not configured)
>
>
> I guess I started to celebrate to early... :)
>
>
> Dalibor
>