Panic with wi0

[Michael W. Lucas]

On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 03:23:59PM -0800, David Wolfskill wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 09:50:58AM -0500, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> > 
> > Any thoughts, folks?
> 
> OK; I finally got around to building & booting today's CURRENT:
> 
> g1-1(8.0-C)[1] uname -a
> FreeBSD g1-1.catwhisker.org. 8.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT #588: Sun Nov 11 13:33:03 PST 2007     root at g1-1.catwhisker.org.:/common/S4/obj/usr/src/sys/CANARY  i386
> g1-1(8.0-C)[2] 
> 
> As expected:
> 
> * No panic trying to probe or use the wi0 NIC.
> 
> * But it (still) doesn't associate, either:
> 
> g1-1(8.0-C)[6] ifconfig
> xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 00:08:74:e5:95:cb
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
> fwe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>         ether 46:4f:c0:76:40:41
>         ch 1 dma -1
> fwip0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         lladdr 44.4f.c0.0.30.76.40.41.a.2.ff.fe.0.0.0.0
> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>         inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 
>         inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
>         inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> wi0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:02:2d:5b:2c:78
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (none)
>         status: no carrier
>         ssid Sojourner channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>         stationname "FreeBSD WaveLAN/IEEE node"
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 wepkey 1:40-bit bmiss 7
>         scanvalid 60 bintval 0
> an0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 00:40:96:32:19:a9
>         inet 172.17.1.1 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 172.17.255.255
>         media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/11Mbps)
>         status: associated
>         ssid  1:lmdhw-net channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
>         stationname FreeBSD
>         authmode OPEN privacy ON deftxkey 1 txpower 0 rtsthreshold 0
>         fragthreshold 0 bmiss 0 mcastrate 0 roaming DEVICE bintval 0
> g1-1(8.0-C)[7] 
> 
> (The an0 NIC works, though it seems to lose connectivity; running
> through the script I cobbled up to get the NIC associated seems to
> help,, though I sometimes need to ifconfig it  down, then up first.)
> 
> This behavior is the same for me in HEAD & RELENG_7; for RELENG_6, the
> wi0 NIC (which in my laptop's case is a miniPCI card) works fine.
> 


for my panic:

Putting the IP address at the end of the rc.conf entry for the card
make the panics stop.

==ml

> Peace,
> david
> -- 
> David H. Wolfskill				david at catwhisker.org
> Proprietary data formats obfuscate, rather than disseminate, information.
> 
> See http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/publickey.gpg for my public key.



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