From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 16 19:58:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from www.lambertfam.org (eqbsd.lambertfam.org [209.142.170.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74F7F37B416 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 19:58:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.lambertfam.org (ool-18bde7b1.dyn.optonline.net [24.189.231.177]) by www.lambertfam.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DC7364C06 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:58:22 -0600 (CST) Received: by laptop.lambertfam.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id C3CCC28B0E; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:58:21 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:58:21 -0500 From: Scott Lambert To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wi broken? Message-ID: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 05:24:20PM -0800, Morgan Davis wrote: > I read where others have had to do a "ifconfig fxp0 down" first before > they can bring their wi devices up, but "ifconfig rl0 down" didn't work > for me. When I try to invoke dhclient on wi0, I immediately get this: > > ifconfig: ioctl (SIOCDIFADDR): Can't assign requested address > > ...and it never does communicate with the DHCP server. All the > wicontrol details appear to be correct. I have this problem on my 4.5-STABLE laptop. I have the same model laptop running 4.5-RELEASE. The -RELEASE box can DHCP just fine. The -STABLE box gives me the error you list above. It works fine if I configure a static IP. What -STABLE were you running before this? -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lambert@lambertfam.org http://www.lambertfam.org/~lambert/resume.html 3 years Sr. SysAdmin experience with FreeBSD in small & medium size ISPs. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message