On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:37:21AM +1100, Robert Jenssen wrote: > 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?
What do you mean by "owned"? If there's no dhclient running and an interface configured for dhcp associates or negotiates a link, devd starts a dhclient. Assuming I get time to make the necessicary changes and push the issue, netif won't start dhclient at all in the future. > Should I disable dhclient in /etc/devd.conf? I wouldn't recommend it unless you never lose association since if you do and you remove the lines in devd.conf you will end up without a dhclient. -- Brooks > 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] > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >
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