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Date:      Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:37 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Nathan Lay <nslay@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: iwi oddities
Message-ID:  <20070927021737.GC1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070927021322.GB1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
References:  <46FAF5C1.4070106@comcast.net> <20070927021322.GB1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>

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On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 09:13:22PM -0500, Brooks Davis wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 08:13:53PM -0400, Nathan Lay wrote:
> >  Hi list,
> >  With these rc.conf flags
> >=20
> >  ifconfig_iwi0=3D"powersave wme -bgscan"
> >=20
> >  iwi decides to bring itself up on boot.  iwi in 6.2 never brought itse=
lf=20
> >  unless 'up' was explicitly specified.  Though, my 6.2 rc.conf settings=
 are=20
> >  more along the lines of
> >=20
> >  ifconfig_iwi0=3D"wme bmiss 100"
>=20
> I'm can't speak to why that particular combination causes the interface
> to be set up, but if you specifically don't want the device to be touched
> until you manually run /etc/rc.d/netif (or something similar) on it add
> the NOAUTO keyword to the line and the interface will be ignored on
> boot.  It was specifically intended to allow onboard wireless devices to =
be
> configured in /etc/rc.conf, but not start until an external trigger occur=
s.

Actually, I spoke too soon.  The interface comes up specificaly because you=
 set
anything in the ifconfig_iwi0 variable.  That should be the case in 6.2 as
well.  The code that executed the "ifconfig iwi0 $ifconfig_iwi0"[0] bit fir=
st
does "ifconfig iwi0 up".

-- Brooks

[0] Actually not quite since we have magic keywords like DHCP, WPA, and
NOAUTO now and those get removed.

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