More wi odd behavior
Robert Watson
rwatson at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 22 00:22:14 GMT 2005
On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> # ifconfig wi0
> wi0: flags=8943<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,PROMISC,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::205:3cff:fe03:86b9%wi0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> inet 142.231.19.178 netmask 0xfffffe00 broadcast 142.231.19.255
> ether 00:05:3c:03:86:b9
> # wicontrol
> wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN: Operation not supported by device
> # dhclient wi0
> ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCAIFADDR): Operation not supported by device
> wi0: not found
If you dmesg, is there a partial driver detach? I saw that problem fairly
frequently when I was using WEP a few months ago, but haven't seen it
recently. At some point it seemed like the driver got upset and basically
detatched or partially detached. Ejecting and re-inserting "fixed" the
problem.
Robert N M Watson
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