Date: Sat, 19 Nov 2005 21:23:55 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: hartzell@alerce.com Cc: FreeBSD-mobile list <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Release 6.0 laptop network interface configuration. Message-ID: <20051120052355.GB3321@odin.ac.hmc.edu> In-Reply-To: <17278.43399.488090.348946@satchel.alerce.com> References: <17278.43399.488090.348946@satchel.alerce.com>
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On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 08:26:47PM -0800, George Hartzell wrote:
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> I'm updating my IBM T42p (2379-DYU) from 5.3-BETA4 to 6.0.
>
> I have ath0 working by adding WPA and DHCP to an ifconfig_ath0 line in
> /etc/rc.conf. em0 almost works by putting DHCP into an ifconfig_em0
> line (dhclient doesn't always die when I pull the cable, I had similar
> problems with fxp0 on an older sony, Brooks is helping with it).
>
> Here's my question: I'd like to be able to specify a general
> configuration (e.g. WPA and DHCP for ath0, DHCP for em0), but not have
> them come up automagically. I'm content running a command (I figure
> I'll eventually tie the command to buttons via acpi_ibm), and adding
> ifconfig_{ath,em}0 lines to /etc/rc.conf and running
>
> /etc/rc.d/netif start {ath0, em0}
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> by hand seems to work.
>
> The problem is that I can't seem to keep all of the interfaces from
> automagically configuring.
Add the NOAUTO keyword to both of them.
-- Brooks
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