On Wednesday, December 08, 2010 11:29:49 am Kim Culhan wrote: > On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:23 AM, John Baldwin <j...@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 5:17:30 pm Kim Culhan wrote: > > > Had been running a wireless bridge for some months in rc.conf: > > > > > > ifconfig_bridge0="addm wlan0 addm re1 up" > > > > > > Updated to 8.2-PRERELEASE 2 days ago and when the machine boots > > > the bridge has no members. > > > > > > Reversing the order of the members results in the bridge having just > > > the re1 member. > > > > > > Running the above command from a shell works and running from > > > an rc.local file also works. > > > > > > FWIW, running from a shell there is about a 3 second delay after hit > > enter > > > before it returns the shell prompt, members are then present. > > > > > > The lines in rc.conf: > > > > > > cloned_interfaces="bridge0" > > > ifconfig_wlan0="inet 192.168.1.50/24 channel 11" > > > wlans_rum0="wlan0" > > > create_args_wlan0="wlanmode hostap mode 11g" > > > ifconfig_bridge0="addm wlan0 addm re1 up" > > > > > > Tried replacing the re device with em, no change. > > > > > > Any help is very greatly appreciated. > > > > Most likely the bridge0 device is created by /etc/rc.d/netif before the > > wlan0 > > device is created, so when the system startup tries to configure bridge0, > > the > > ifconfig statement fails. > > > > What does 'ifconfig -l' show after you have booted? > > > It shows: > > re0 em0 plip0 lo0 bridge0 > > On the console at boot there is, after the file partition status and setting > the hostname: > ifconfig: BRDGADD wlan0: No such file or directory > > Following this is: > > Starting Network: lo0 re0 em0 bridge0 > > Which is followed by output the same as from ifconfig -a including bridge0 > which > has no members. > > Next is: > > Starting Network: rum0 > rum0: flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST etc
Hmm, I wonder why rum0 shows up so late. Do you not plug it in until after boot, or does it depend on devd loading firmware into the device, etc.? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
