On 2010-04-16, Noah Pugsley <noah.p@bendtel.com> wrote:
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> I've been having trouble with a 9285 in a low end Gateway 
> laptop/netbook. I've been tracking snapshots and it always locks up the 
> machine when I run 'ifconfig athn0 scan' after 5 seconds or so. Can not 
> switch to another terminal and can not log in over the network (fast 
> ethernet, re0, which does work fine) after it locks up.

Might be obvious but doesn't hurt to mention it...

If you are doing this from inside X, switch to a text console first.
If there's a panic message and X has the display, you won't see it.