On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Ludwig Mises wrote:
> > You did not report any problem in a decent way. I'm almost 100% sure you
> > created the problem yourself by not following the proper upgrade path.
>
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> This is very probable. Actually, it gets more complex than this... I
> installed the snapshot from 10/14 and after rebooting the kernel wouldn't
> boot. It dropped into the debugger only after a few lines of booting,
> somewhere around:
>
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000 0xe8000/0x4000!
> cpu0 at mainbus0
>
> At that point, I had to boot bsd.old because it simply refused to boot.
> Based on the incorrect assumption that the snapshot was pre -release I
> decided to download the kernel from 3.8-release and install that. The kernel
> now booted but wi didn't work. I started looking at the differences between
> 3.7-stable and 3.8-release and noticed a few changes in wicontrol and if_wi*
> and thought the problem was somewhere there to be found.
You are talking nonsense. 3.8 is not on any ftp site. So how can you
download and install it?
> Now, after having the versions straight, I am running 3.8-release and wi is
> working, after changing the #define for SIOCSWAVELAN to that which is in
> 3.8-current.
You have everything but your versions straight.
-Otto
