iwn: Errors during make iwn.ko

Stephen Montgomery-Smith stephen at math.missouri.edu
Thu Sep 25 16:41:27 UTC 2008


Flavio Junior wrote:
> I'd tried to use that driver but, all operations gives me "unable to
> get *operation* results".
> 
> dmesg shows me no error, and detects when I disable wireless button
> (iwn0: RF switch: radio disabled).
> 
> I'm sure that have wireless network around (I'm writing this e-mail using one).
> 
> Does someone there using iwn driver?
> Maybe I have forget something ;/

As it happens, I am using the iwn driver.  (That is why I happened to 
know about it so quickly - incidentally I'm sorry for my snappy tone 
last time.)

Are you doing all the "wlan" stuff that CURRENT now requires for 
wireless cards - for example, in my rc.conf I have:

wlans_iwn0="wlan0"
ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP"

and all subsequent ifconfig and dhclient commands are done using wlan0.

(And also, my guess is that the iwn driver you were using was a backport 
to FreeBSD-STABLE, which doesn't have all this wlan stuff, and hence is 
incompatible with CURRENT.)



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