From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 17:30:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C636F106566B for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:30:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85ACC8FC18 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:30:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws12 with SMTP id 12so5459646vws.13 for ; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:30:10 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.182.137 with SMTP id cc9mr5844846qab.320.1288719010294; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:30:10 -0700 (PDT) Sender: bschmidt@techwires.net Received: by 10.229.213.73 with HTTP; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 10:30:10 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [84.180.228.184] In-Reply-To: <20101102155310.GF1506@albert.catwhisker.org> References: <20101101222510.GY1506@albert.catwhisker.org> <201011020840.54931.bschmidt@freebsd.org> <20101102155310.GF1506@albert.catwhisker.org> Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 18:30:10 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: yrVXAIaJFVZ25aGJ9ryh3BtkOB8 Message-ID: From: Bernhard Schmidt To: David Wolfskill , current@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant gets points for trying, I suppose.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:30:11 -0000 On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 16:53, David Wolfskill wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 08:40:54AM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: >> .... >> > > I have the switch on this laptop in position to disable the wireless >> > > device (iwn(4)). =A0Is there some way wpa_supplicant (or something) = might >> > > be able to recognize that this is a pointless exercise? >> > >> > Well iwn could bring device down when radio is turned off and >> > bring it up when radio is turned on ??? >> >> Well, that should actually be the case. I don't see how it might differ >> between stable/8 and head. >> >> Can you post the output of >> wpa_supplicant -Dbsd -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -d >> while the RF kill button is in disabled state? >> >> > > I don't recall stable/8 doing this, though I could be wrong. > > Next time I booted stable/8, I checked /var/log/messages, and verified > that wpa_supplicant is also persistent in that environment. > > So I did the above within script(1); I've attached a copy of the > typescript file. =A0This was done while running: > > FreeBSD 8.1-STABLE #20 r214672: Tue Nov =A02 04:19:13 PDT 2010 Thanks. I had quick look into that and I currently do not see an easy way to address that issue, as in tell wpa_supplicant about the device's state. This might change though once a newer wpa_supplicant has been imported. For now just add wpa_supplicant_flags=3D"-qqqq" to rc.conf. -- Bernhard