Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:39:48 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Mathias Sogorski <mathias.sogorski@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freeze on closing terminal that runs wpa_supplicant Message-ID: <20100317213948.034371CC18@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:47:19 BST." <20100317194719.GA1919@orangespace>
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> Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:47:19 +0100 > From: Mathias Sogorski <mathias.sogorski@googlemail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Hello! > I am running 8.0-RELEASE on a notebook with the Intel 3945 WiFi. I > usually start wpa_supplicant [...]& on a terminal when entering gnome > followed by the dhcpcd call to use the WiFi connection. After having > finished work and closing the terminal that runs wpa_supplicant, > everything freezes and I have to turn the power off. Any suggestions? Is there a reason you don't use the standard incantation of ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf? An alternative would be to manually do an "/etc/rc.d/netif stop wlan0" or, even "ifconfig wlan0 down". I suspect that yanking the parent process out from under the wpa_supplicant is causing a deadlock. (This is a bug, but I have no idea how difficult it might be to fix.) -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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