Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 11:37:21 +1100 From: Robert Jenssen <robertjenssen@ozemail.com.au> To: net@freebsd.org Subject: dhclient conflict between /sbin/devd and /etc/rc.d/netif ? Message-ID: <200802111137.21550.robertjenssen@ozemail.com.au>
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Hi,
Every so often I have trouble connecting rt2560 based PCI wireless network
card to my wireless router/access point. Typically I get:
# sudo /etc/rc.d/netif restart ral0
Starting wpa_supplicant.
ral0: no link .............. giving up
ral0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
ether 00:11:50:63:cd:47
media: IEEE 802.11 Wireless Ethernet autoselect (DS/1Mbps)
status: no carrier
Even though there seems to be plenty of signal power:
# sudo ifconfig ral0 list scan
SSID BSSID CHAN RATE S:N INT CAPS
xxxxxxx... 00:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx 10 54M -74:-95 100 EPS WPA
Recently I noticed that sometimes, after the above "netif restart" fails, the
ral0 interface "automagically" comes up anyway. Then dhclient is owned
by /sbin/devd. The default devd.conf starts dhclient for both ethernet and
PCI-cardbus devices. Is it a good idea for both /sbin/devd
and /etc/rc.d/netif to start a dhclient on ral0 at about the same time?
Should I disable dhclient in /etc/devd.conf?
Regards,
Rob Jenssen
PS:
"uname -a" shows:
FreeBSD 7.0-PRERELEASE #1: Fri Feb 8 14:36:49 EST 2008
dmesg.today shows:
ral0: <Ralink Technology RT2560> mem 0xf2004000-0xf2005fff irq 22 at device
6.0 on pci2
ral0: MAC/BBP RT2560 (rev 0x04), RF RT2525
ral0: Ethernet address: 00:11:50:63:cd:47
ral0: [ITHREAD]
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