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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--PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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. --PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFG+xLAXY6L6fI4GtQRAgZEAJ9ob+yH7qfD5RX9ym/hfzHAV1X56wCdGily Oi03baAKiaeI2dKa9aKur9o= =reBD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM--
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