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Date:      Fri, 13 Jul 2018 14:04:08 +0300
From:      Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [regression] The USB WiFi card stopped working: if_run doesn't create the 'run0' interface any more
Message-ID:  <963c38fb-1c08-62bc-198d-309953c39eb1@yuripv.net>
In-Reply-To: <ffafff20-a930-44bf-8ff7-3c85905fd8c4@yuripv.net>
References:  <750df9db-ac02-a691-d091-7c34fe5ddb22@rawbw.com> <b072c7c7-dbaa-f2e7-9c09-a9cc78465180@rawbw.com> <ffafff20-a930-44bf-8ff7-3c85905fd8c4@yuripv.net>

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Yuri Pankov wrote:
> 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.
> 
> It's likely the switch from using usb.conf to devmatch.conf (see r329148).
> 
> I can confirm the problem, inserting the ralink usb wifi dongle doesn't
> do anything (I'm not using it anymore so I didn't notice the problem),
> though the action in devmatch.conf is executed, so it might be the
> problem somewhere below in devmatch(8).

And looks like it's fixed in r335763 (for me, at least).



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