Hello, Karl,

It seems nwam is enabled by defaul in Indiana/b96.

What's the output of from below commands:
#svcs -a |grep physical
If you see nwam is online like:
======================
bash-3.2# svcs -a |grep physical
disabled 8?_25 svc:/network/physical:default
online 8?_25 svc:/network/physical:nwam
======================
you just need to do below command:
#svcadm restart nwam
Then you will be notified with a popup to choose AP to connect with.

If you want to use wificonfig to configure wireless network, you must 
disable nwam firstly.
#svcadm disable nwam
#svcadm enable physical:default
... ...

Good luck. :-)

- Michael

Karl Dalen ??:
> I'm using the ath-0.7.3 driver together with wificonfig on my laptop and
> when I disconnect the wlan using: wificonfig -i ath0 disconnect (or suspend)
> and move to another location and try to connect to another access point it 
> fails.
> If I do:
> # wificonfig -i ath0 connect newpoint
> It looks like I'm connected based on: wificonfig -i ath0 showstatus
>
>         linkstatus: connected
>         active profile: none
>         essid: newpoint
>         bssid: 00:18:b0:7b:c2:99
>         encryption: none
>         signal strength: medium(10)
>
> but 'ifconfig ath0' shows:
> ath0: flags=201004843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,DHCP,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 
> index 2
>         inet 0.0.0.0 netmask ffff0000 broadcast 10.0.255.255
>
> which means I haven't got a new IP at the new access point
> It seems to indicate that my IP is set to 0.0.0.0
>
> Now if I try:
> # ifconfig ath0 dhcp
> ifconfig: ath0: wait timed out, operations still pending
>
> and I fail to get a new IP. It doesn't matter how many times I do wificonfig
> disconnect and connect I never manage to get the wlan interface up unless
> I reboot after which it comes up automatically without the need for any manual
> wificonfig and it works reliably.
>
> How can I clean up the state of ifconfig and wificonfig such that it can
> reconnect and acquire new IP after moving to another access point ?
> I'm running Indiana build 96 Anyone experienced similar problems ?
>
> It shows the same behavior when I go back home to my local
> access point so it has nothing to with the access points themselves
> or any security setting as everything works on each location
> after a reboot.
>
> Any help would be appreciated
>
> /Karl D
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