Lock order reversal in ral driver

2008-03-23 Thread Robert Jenssen
Hi, Since upgrading to FreeBSD 7 I have been experiencing some frustrating problems with my RAL wifi card. In particular, it seems to me that dhclient fails when the ral device driver times out while scanning for my access point. At the same time my HP PDA with Spectec WiFi SDIO card has no pro

Re: dhclient conflict between /sbin/devd and /etc/rc.d/netif ?

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Jenssen
Hi Brooks and all, On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:06:26 pm you wrote: > 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

Re: dhclient conflict between /sbin/devd and /etc/rc.d/netif ?

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Jenssen
Hi, Thanks for the prompt reply. By "owned", I meant that "ps -ajx" shows /sbin/devd as the process group leader. For example, at the moment on my system: [root etc]ps -axj | grep devd root5727 1 5727 57270 Is??0:00.00 /sbin/devd [root etc]ps -axj | grep dhclient root

dhclient conflict between /sbin/devd and /etc/rc.d/netif ?

2008-02-10 Thread Robert Jenssen
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 metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:11:50:63