Bug#601803: kfreebsd-image-8.1-1-686: ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0 => SIOCIFCREATE2: Bad address

[Timo Juhani Lindfors <timo.lindfors@iki.fi>]

I downloaded

ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.1/FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso

and combined the base.?? files as

http://lindi.iki.fi/lindi/kfreebsd/freebsd-8.1-release-i386-base.tar.bz2

which I extracted to /root/freebsd-8.1-release-i386-base and added
/usr/local/bin/freebsd wrapper that contains

#!/bin/sh
exec chroot /root/freebsd-8.1-release-i386-base "$@"

and lets me do

# freebsd ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev eth0

which does not fail with SIOCIFCREATE2.

=> this looks like a userland bug in debian.