On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 10:00 AM, clutton <clut...@zoho.com> wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-01 at 23:50 -0700, Adrian Chadd wrote: >> OK, so where's the other path for invoking wpa_supplicant? > > What do you mean?
kldload if_ath if will create ath0 which is a INET interface which will invoke pccard_ether, which will configure the interface based on what is configured in rc.conf. Point is, down the road wlan0 will be created, with 2 things following 1. start wpa_supplicant if it is configured in rc.conf 2. create an event for devd which will again invoke pccard_ether for wlan0 So basically we have 2 instances of pccard_ether started, one for ath0 and one for wlan0. create ath0 -> devd (new interface ath0) -> pccard_ether -> create wlan0 (*) -> start wpa_supplicant (*) devd (new interface wlan0) -> pccard_ether -> start wpa_supplicant Hope that makes it a bit clearer. -- Bernhard _______________________________________________ freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-wireless To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-wireless-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
