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Date:      Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:28:44 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        ambrisko@ambrisko.com
Cc:        morgan.davis@hosting.com, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wi broken?
Message-ID:  <20020318.182844.22165854.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <200203182127.g2ILRDY70537@ambrisko.com>
References:  <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> <200203182127.g2ILRDY70537@ambrisko.com>

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In message: <200203182127.g2ILRDY70537@ambrisko.com>
            Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> writes:
: Morgan Davis writes:
: | After updating to the latest -STABLE as of 3/6/2002, wi refused to work
: | anymore.  I updated my kernel as of 4:30PM PST today since wi_if.c was
: | changed.  Still, no good.  Relevant networking details on my system:
: | 
: | FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE #0: Sat Mar 16 16:32:51 PST 2002
: | 
: | wi0: <PRISM2STA PCI WaveLAN/IEEE 802.11> port
: | 0xdc00-0xdc3f,0xd800-0xd87f mem 0xde000000-0xde000fff irq 10 at device
: | 10.0 on pci0
: | wi0: 802.11 address: 00:90:d1:07:3b:61
: | wi0: using RF:PRISM2 MAC:HFA3841 CARD:HWB3163 rev.A, Firmware: 0.7
: | variant 6
: | rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
: | 0xde001000-0xde0010ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
: | rl0: Ethernet address: 00:30:1b:07:63:76
: | miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
: | rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
: | rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
: | 
: | I read where others have had to do a "ifconfig fxp0 down" first before
: | they can bring their wi devices up, but "ifconfig rl0 down" didn't work
: | for me.  When I try to invoke dhclient on wi0, I immediately get this:
: | 
: | ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address
: | 
: | ...and it never does communicate with the DHCP server.  All the
: | wicontrol details appear to be correct.
: | 
: | How can I help debug this?
: 
: I think this all due to the change in sys/netinet/in.c.  Try to use
: version 1.44.2.7 and see if it fixes this.  This commit also broke
: kernel BOOTP/DHCP configuration.  Maybe this need code needs to
: verify that the duplicate 0.0.0.0 addresses are okay and not report
: an error.  If it does you might want to ping the authors of the commit.

I have verified that ed and ep have similar problems in -stable.
Likely it is this change.  I think we should back it out in -current
and in -stable personally, but haven't had time to pursue it.

Warner

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