Ath0 802.11 comes up with Sam's patch but shows no carrier and I can't make it connect.

[Andrew Thompson]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 06:25:20PM -0500, Edwin L. Culp wrote:
> Quoting "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda at gmail.com>:
> 
>> Because it looks like you are using CURRENT, first you need to create
>> wlanX interface:
>> 
>> ifconfig wlan create wlandev ath0
>> 
>> Read man page of ath (if you did installed new world) and/or entry in
>> /usr/src/UPDATING dated 20080420.
> 
> Sorry I missed that Paul.  Thanks for calling it to my attention.
> 
> I have tried to follow the instructions in the ath and wlan manual pages 
> and the UPDATING file but my end result hasn't changed - "no carrier".  I'm 
> sure that I am still missing something else.
> 
> My rc.conf has changed from:
>>> if_ath_load="yes"
>>> ifconfig_ath0="DHCP"
> to
> #  ath new config
> wlans_ath0=wlan0
> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
> 
> My ifconfig is now:
> 
> ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
> 	ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> 	status: no carrier
> 
> wlan0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
                   ^^^^^

For some reason your interface is not UP. The dhcp client should do this
so make sure its being launched.

> 	ether 00:1d:d9:27:5c:e5
> 	media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect)
> 	status: no carrier
> 	ssid "" channel 1 (2412 Mhz 11b)
> 	regdomain 101 indoor ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 16 bmiss 7
> 	scanvalid 60 bgscan bgscanintvl 300 bgscanidle 250 roam:rssi 7
> 	roam:rate 1 wme burst bintval 0
> 
> Both have "no carrier" and neither will do scan