What's running the other copy?

Adrian
On Nov 1, 2013 4:00 PM, "clutton" <clut...@zoho.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 12:33 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> > On 1 November 2013 12:16, Bernhard Schmidt <bschm...@techwires.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > > That actually is a design question I once wrapped my head around
> > > unsuccessfully. The lines above are responsible for configuring wlan0
> > > if it is created, eg.
> > > ifconfig wlan0 destroy
> > > ifconfig wlan0 create wlandev ath0
> > > will invoke above code which will then invoke pccard_ether. Changing
> > > the code as you intent to will prevent this.
> > >
> > > Someone should step up an decide what is supposed to happen, should
> > > wlan0 in that case be configured as stated in rc.conf, or not?
> > >
> > > The actual issue though, is in wpa_supplicant itself. It has code to
> > > prevent it being started twice, but that doesn't kick in because the
> > > instances are started to fast and we loose (have not yet setup enough)
> > > information in our net code.
> >
> > Uhm, I'm confused by this. Would you mind explaining it in a bit more
> detail?
> >
> >
> > -a
>
> The devd runs a pccard_ether script when the IFNET interface appears.
> In some rare cases you can see two copies of the wpa_sopplicant.
>
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