From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Mar 16 21:31:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DAE437B416 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 21:31:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (harmony.village.org [10.0.0.6]) by rover.village.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g2H5VSi54457; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:31:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Received: from localhost (warner@rover2.village.org [10.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2H5VRL71518; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:31:28 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@village.org) Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 22:31:00 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <20020316.223100.17392885.imp@village.org> To: lambert@lambertfam.org Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: wi broken? From: "M. Warner Losh" In-Reply-To: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org> References: <001201c1cd52$76ecb040$0600a8c0@mars> <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org> X-Mailer: Mew version 2.1 on Emacs 21.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 In message: <20020317035821.GB1991@laptop.lambertfam.org> Scott Lambert 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message