Problem since "wlan" came in: SIOCS80211: Device not configured

Andrew Thompson thompsa at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 6 22:12:02 UTC 2008


On Fri, Jun 06, 2008 at 12:58:32PM +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote:
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> | Does it still happen if you limit the channels, try
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> |  ifconfig wlan0 chanlist 1-11
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> !!!! No it doesn't, actually it works this way!
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> So, it was a config problem at my side?
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> Thanks a lot..

The eeprom on the card is meant to list the valid channels and the
driver checks for this. I dont know why channel 13 is valid but the
firmware borks on it. If you are feeling motivated you can add a few
printfs in wpi_read_eeprom_channels() to try and see why.


Andrew


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