From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Thu Jul 12 20:38:41 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5686810430F0 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:38:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [IPv6:2607:f2f8:a098::2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB0547F031 for ; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:38:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.106] (cpe-75-82-194-8.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.194.8]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id f01c30f1 TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [regression] The USB WiFi card stopped working: if_run doesn't create the 'run0' interface any more To: Yuri , freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <750df9db-ac02-a691-d091-7c34fe5ddb22@rawbw.com> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: <83624f27-797d-6557-3f7e-8beac57c7d38@nomadlogic.org> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:38:33 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 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: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 20:38:41 -0000 On 07/12/2018 12:25, Yuri wrote: > On 07/03/18 12:45, Yuri wrote: >> I updated the laptop to r335884 last night, and 'service >> wpa_supplicant start wlan0' doesn't succeed any more. >> >> kernel is supposed to create the network interface 'run0', but it >> doesn't. This is the immediate reason why wpa_supplicant fails. >> >> The non-creation of 'run0' is a regression. I don't know of any >> workaround. >> >> >> The steps 'mergemaster -p' and 'mergemaster' were done during the >> upgrade, so /etc is updated. > > > Bug report for this problem: > https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229738 > > This is a very serious regression breaking WiFi. > sorry if i missed something (don't see details in the bug report) - is the issue that the run(4) kernel module is not being loaded?  is there an error when the system attempts to load the kernel module in the dmesg buffer?  if it is not being loaded automagically what happens when you manually load the module via "kldload" or by updating rc.conf? -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA