On 08/30/2011 09:47 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
Can you please try 8.0-RELEASE and see if it works for you? I'd like
to see where things broke along the FreeBSD-7 ->  FreeBSD-8.2 path.

I finished another upgrade from source, and after the restart the ifconfig commands worked immediately.
I guess whatever I did last Spring, was only a partial install.
Results were as follows:
<code>
|router0>ifconfig
ath0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 2290
        ether 00:1b:2f:37:02:46
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running
lagg0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
        media: Ethernet autoselect
        status: no carrier
        laggproto failover
wlan0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        ether 00:1b:2f:37:02:46
        media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect mode 11g <hostap>
        status: running
        ssid wrouter0 channel 1 (2412 MHz 11g) bssid 00:1b:2f:37:02:46
        country US ecm authmode OPEN privacy OFF txpower 23 scanvalid 60
        protmode CTS wme burst dtimperiod 1 -dfs |
</code>

I am able to get the wlan0 device to associate, and to scan, as listed below:
<code>
router0> ifconfig wlan0 scan
SSID/MESH ID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS CZXQ2 00:26:b8:46:70:8d 1 54M -85:-96 100 EPS WME HTCAP ATH 4EK81 00:26:b8:1f:ba:41 1 54M -92:-96 100 EPS WME HTCAP ATH virgicom-wi... 00:18:e7:0d:16:1a 2 54M 0:0 100 EPS WPA Belkin.306C 94:44:52:a3:f0:6c 1 54M -86:-96 100 EP MESHCONF MESHCONF WPS HTCAP WPA RSN WME 88VC7 00:1f:90:ed:8d:b9 1 54M -88:-96 100 EPS WME ATH ALLEN 00:24:b2:d6:57:2c 2 54M 0:0 100 EPS WME HTCAP ATH WPS
</code>

However, the current issue may be something that is a simple "staleness" issue with a faulty kernel install, and hostapd.
When attempting to get hostapd running, I get the following:

<code>
router0>/etc/rc.d/hostapd start
kldload: can't load wlan_xauth: No such file or directory
/etc/rc.d/hostapd: WARNING: Unable to load kernel module wlan_xauth
              /etc/rc.d/hostapd: WARNING: failed precmd routine for hostapd
</code>

Here is the currently installed version, which is asking for the seemingly depricated kernel module wlan_xauth.
<code>
router0> hostapd -v
                hostapd v0.7.3
                User space daemon for IEEE 802.11 AP management,
                IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Copyright (c) 2002-2010, Jouni Malinen <j...@w1.fi> and contributors
</code>

I have found that I am actually missing the required wlan_xauth.ko wlan_xauth.symbols entries in /boot/kernel so I must have a messy install of the 8.2-STABLE kernel.

I am considering this issue resolved, since I can fully utilize the wlan0 mechanism now.

Thanks again.

--
Respectfully,


Martes G Wigglesworth
M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC
www.mgwigglesworth.net

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