Setting up atheros (168c:001c) wireless NIC in FreeBSD

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Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल wrote:
> Sam Leffler writes:
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>> amd64 or i386?
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> sorry, I forgot to mention, I'm running FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT on amd64
> architecture built from a /usr/src checked out few hours ago.
>   

I've been having the same problems with Dell 167G USB Wlan dongle using
the "rum" driver. Also recent 8-CUR amd64.
I cannot do a SSID scan because it returns me:
ifconfig: unable to get scan results

Just like you. So this appears not to be related to the actual ath driver.
Hope any knows about a workaround or solution.

Regards,
Veronica