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From: Ted Nolan <tednolan> on 9 Aug 2010 00:48
I have a number of old Lucent Orinoco 802.11b "wi" cards. These have always
been super reliable, and have seen me though releases of FreeBSD from 4.X to
7.X.

So far, I am unable to get them to work in FreeBSD 8.1. When I insert the
card in the PCMCIA slot, it is correctly identified as "wi0". Then I can
create the wlan device with

ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev wi0

this seems to complete successfully, and gives the wlan0 MAC address as
being the one from the wi0 card.

However, I cannot connect to anything.

Doing
ifconfig wlan0 up scan

produces no results, and the transmit light on the card does blink.

Similarly

dhclient wlan0

fails.

If I insert an ath0 card, and configure that, wlan0 works as expected.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Ted
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