From owner-freebsd-wireless@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 25 16:06:38 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE324C73 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-x236.google.com (mail-wg0-x236.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:400c:c00::236]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4F3CE2147 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:06:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f54.google.com with SMTP id n12so1809069wgh.21 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7NCJQObT/Pf5BprVJbtCQIPqhAnqMoRcDzqqaLqWfJg=; b=HSMj9tlN3cTnU5xJwSnxzl0UqzJzL3/7PP7q6eQWLC8Hdl92Gcl2N0PyEgALYMgyJR 3Fj1nOLFcSB+yMTAfvneoGVHK8gwdlM8tQa92I9sVSqeSvv4M4F4WS+LGLi16iAlXXGb gee5yfKxCSp0qqTkY5jxLmmye8nLh1yRkCryu3aE5A2r7xrZiS+FFbWz9e8QjUyTjAr0 6FRQmw5gNPYnQq6tJfGD5sm3vAk+iHRX98GEGx54+nFmZCq349S7R999aIxtu6e3S5vp KPbdTVkEXvAMh06cs+sFhSe7Hzc6GJJtWw7T/L6iJal7ShWEKLyaMGhCv02kIbufTLew EJDg== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=7NCJQObT/Pf5BprVJbtCQIPqhAnqMoRcDzqqaLqWfJg=; b=SWlNwY9wrjtOscDfh2cWgwliIKo9GJ6cS4Jz060kiMKYZuXHYAAiwrH0FSu2zHTcjF n4AwHVN2VUxaVPPjdb6mp6mzbrshHniKkWlBXg1KBD4nHlizzfjANypnG72WtWpB2ThL qGP5w09Ei8K5nePEBP+V5OHlMrfnf0Nvx+zyLMBb2mtjm16LVNC4Q/1qqycSG1g5oO8R godiDzRhXACmd8DdDZknC/78gGzPVpVTDB26+p9ihenJUNyFdQoKu8EjSOXscsDn2UbS KT8YLTgub9yqn/jwBsSuImNCLingkEZWb9mBa3Vb1EQwCAttiVBKOKGog1lUxWX98cEu 5eYA== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.180.14.105 with SMTP id o9mr2661611wic.30.1374768396713; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.217.94.132 with HTTP; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:06:36 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:06:36 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: O5dVnHc6b0mJPAl9i8Lh1XYzQ0c Message-ID: Subject: Re: hostapd awkward problem: WiFi network "vanishes". From: Adrian Chadd To: Pedro Flynn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-wireless@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussions of 802.11 stack, tools device driver development." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 16:06:38 -0000 On 25 July 2013 05:00, Pedro Flynn 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