On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Robert Millan <[email protected]> wrote: > Is someone able to test that wireless works when using latest > freebsd-utils (>= 8.2+ds1-1) from sid? I.e. that fixing #601803 was > enough to get a working wireless setup.
Not so much here. Here's the pudding: root@pleco:~# aptitude show freebsd-utils Package: freebsd-utils Essential: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 8.2+ds1-2 Priority: required Section: utils Maintainer: GNU/kFreeBSD Maintainers <[email protected]> Uncompressed Size: 905 k Depends: libbsd0 (>= 0.2.0), libc0.1 (>= 2.10), libcam0 (>= 8.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgeom1 (>= 7.0), libkiconv4 (>= 7.0), libkvm0 (>= 7.0), libsbuf0 (>= 7.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), zlib1g (>= 1:1.2.0), lsb-base (>= 3.0-6) Suggests: kbdcontrol, vidcontrol, freebsd-hackedutils (>= 6.1-3) Conflicts: inetutils-tools (<= 2:1.4.3+20051212-4) Replaces: freebsd-hackedutils (<= 6.1-3) Description: FreeBSD utilities needed for GNU/kFreeBSD This package provides FreeBSD utilities needed for GNU/kFreeBSD. > As described in the FreeBSD handbook [1], and assuming your kernel > detected a wireless-capable device whose name is "ath0", the following > commands would suffice: > > # ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 So here's what I get running the above: root@pleco:~# ifconfig ath0 ath0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290 ether 0:40:96:a3:24:dd media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (autoselect) status: no carrier root@pleco:~# ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Bad address Need more info? It looks like the wireless support is still... not quite there? -- Zac Slade [email protected] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAO3r19SHUEZNmrF7v8N2uNv5-kfq=xcom5da6jva5rjzrce...@mail.gmail.com
