From owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org Fri Jul 13 18:01:21 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 B7C9A1046640 for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:01:21 +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 05C417181B for ; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:01:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from [192.168.1.187] (cpe-75-82-194-8.socal.res.rr.com [75.82.194.8]) by vps-mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 13502bbb TLS version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128 verify=NO; Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:01:18 -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> <83624f27-797d-6557-3f7e-8beac57c7d38@nomadlogic.org> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 11:01:14 -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: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 18:01:21 -0000 On 07/12/2018 21:15, Yuri wrote: > On 07/12/18 13:38, Pete Wright wrote: >> >> 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? > > > No errors while the kernel module is loaded. The problem is that when > the card is inserted wlan0 isn't automatically created. It also isn't > created during boot with the card in. I think that there were some > changes in devd that caused this regression. > interesting, i ran into an issue with a kernel/world i updated to on thursday where my USB mouse was non-functional and i suspect something funky happened with devd as well.  one suggestion i heard was to enable devmatch which i haven't had a chance to test yet. throwing it out there as it may help you. cheers, -pete -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA