From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 3 07:27:06 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 AC0DC1065673 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 07:27:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bschmidt@techwires.net) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EA838FC16 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 2010 07:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz3 with SMTP id 3so285998bwz.13 for ; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.120.194 with SMTP id e2mr4953837bkr.200.1288769225130; Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jessie.localnet (p5B0E0F9E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [91.14.15.158]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id r21sm5294293bkj.10.2010.11.03.00.27.03 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 03 Nov 2010 00:27:03 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Bernhard Schmidt From: Bernhard Schmidt To: David Wolfskill Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2010 08:27:02 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.32-25-generic; KDE/4.4.2; i686; ; ) References: <20101101222510.GY1506@albert.catwhisker.org> <20101102215518.GA1980@albert.catwhisker.org> In-Reply-To: <20101102215518.GA1980@albert.catwhisker.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011030827.02253.bschmidt@freebsd.org> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: wpa_supplicant gets points for trying, I suppose.... X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bschmidt@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 07:27:06 -0000 On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 22:55:18 David Wolfskill wrote: > On Tue, Nov 02, 2010 at 06:30:10PM +0100, Bernhard Schmidt wrote: > > .... > > 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. > > I'm not entirely surprised -- a quick look I took at sys/dev/iwn seemed > to indicate to me that whiule iwn(4) could whine about the switch, it > didn't have much in the way of ability to actually provide information > about that status in some other way (e.g., a non-zero return from > attempt to mess with the device). But I don't claim extensive expertise > in that area. There is ieee80211_notify_radio(), granted iwn(4) misses the calls.. that function is supposed to notify upper layers about the radio state (0 = off, 1 = on). Anyways, once wpa_supplicant import/update is done, I'll probably have a look into that again. > > For now just add wpa_supplicant_flags="-qqqq" to rc.conf. > : > :-} That, or decide to ignore the silly messages.... Noted, thanks. > > Peace, > david -- Bernhard