stable/8: iwn5100 , unable to get scan results

[Bernhard Schmidt]

On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 03:10:21PM +0200, Nezmer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm new to FreeBSD so don't shoot me If I'm missing something obvious.
> 
> I built and installed stable/8 yesterday to try out the updated iwn
> driver. But every time I run:
> ifconfig iwn0 up scan
> 
> I get:
> ifconfig: unable to get scan results
> 
> How can I go about investigating this further?
> The needed module and firmware are loaded of course.

8.0 and newer use VAPs, you have to do:
# kldload if_iwn
# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev iwn0
# ifconfig wlan0 up
# ifconfig wlan0 list scan