More wi odd behavior

[Alexander Leidinger]

Kevin Oberman <oberman at es.net> wrote:


> In any case, my stream locked up and I saw the following:
> # 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
> exiting.

I've seen the same some (~ 2-3) weeks ago. But without a PROMISC setting. I
was only transfering a 150MB file with scp. It wasn't successfully
transfered. I switched to rsync and after some attempts I had the file on my
laptop. I hadn't time to look at it further.

Bye,
Alexander.

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