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Date:      Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:31:00 -0700 (MST)
From:      "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
To:        lambert@lambertfam.org
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: wi broken?
Message-ID:  <20020316.223100.17392885.imp@village.org>
In-Reply-To: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org>
References:  <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org>

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In message: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org>
            Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> writes:
: On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:24:20PM -0800, Morgan Davis wrote:
: > 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.
: 
: I have this problem on my 4.5-STABLE laptop.  I have the same model
: laptop running 4.5-RELEASE.  The -RELEASE box can DHCP just fine.  The
: -STABLE box gives me the error you list above.  It works fine if I
: configure a static IP.  
: 
: What -STABLE were you running before this?

My guess is that a recent MFC broke wi on -stable. :-(

Warner

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