From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 01:54:58 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2844316A403 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:54:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91.asp.att.net [204.127.203.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B90FA43D99 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:53:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net ([12.207.12.9]) by sccmmhc91.asp.att.net (sccmmhc91) with ESMTP id <20061114015241m9100emp91e>; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:52:44 +0000 Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kAE1qdQq041922; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:52:40 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: (from brooks@localhost) by lor.one-eyed-alien.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id kAE1qdMs041921; Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:52:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2006 19:52:38 -0600 From: Brooks Davis To: Steve Franks Message-ID: <20061114015238.GA41883@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <539c60b90611130825x3219cdf2k1f355e2dfa7a9b5a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <539c60b90611130825x3219cdf2k1f355e2dfa7a9b5a@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhcp only works once on wifi card X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 01:54:58 -0000 --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 09:25:47AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > Hi, >=20 > Have a wifi card that dhcp's fine on startup, however, every time the > AP drops off (say 15-45min), it loses it's ip adress, and never asks > for a new one. Adapter has "blah blah blah DCHP" in it's ifconfig > entry in rc.conf, what am I missing? Do I need to place > dhclient_enable=3D"YES" in rc.conf or something like that? The man page > for dhclient seems to assume it's always run from the command line, > afaik, although the -b switch would indicate otherwise... This is probably a bug in the driver's link state handling. What type of device is it? -- Brooks --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFWSFmXY6L6fI4GtQRAhleAJ4oX9jZWcvAloy+pM1zKEa0Z68/kQCgtzjX 0Uh5mAxcnrG7VnLzCCb2aEw= =HDe0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --bp/iNruPH9dso1Pn--