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Date:      Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:06:36 -0700
From:      Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org>
To:        Pedro Flynn <pedro.flynn@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hostapd awkward problem: WiFi network "vanishes".
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On 25 July 2013 05:00, Pedro Flynn <pedro.flynn@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Adrian,
>
> If I do this way, it works. The only problem is that it is annoying, since
> it is my home router, and I wish things to be up and running without any
> manual intervention. I noticed that if hostapd initialization is delayed by
> a short period of time (if I edit the /etc/rc.d/hostapd initialization
> script adding a "sleep 60" line before it calls the hostapd daemon), it
> works.  But I still want to understand what is really going on, since I
> think this behavior is not supposed to happen.
>
> Thank you for your repply.

I agree. I have no idea what is going on. I wonder if there's some
other ifconfig calls done on wlan post hostapd being run.



-adrian



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