Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:31:00 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: lambert@lambertfam.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi broken? Message-ID: <20020316.223100.17392885.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org>
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Scott Lambert <lambert@lambertfam.org> writes:
: 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?
My guess is that a recent MFC broke wi on -stable. :-(
Warner
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