From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 27 02:17:39 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9713B16A49E for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:17:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from lor.one-eyed-alien.net (cl-162.ewr-01.us.sixxs.net [IPv6:2001:4830:1200:a1::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008C513C455 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:17:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from brooks@lor.one-eyed-alien.net) 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 l8R2Hbxk002929; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:37 -0500 (CDT) (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 l8R2HbJv002928; Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from brooks) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:37 -0500 From: Brooks Davis To: Nathan Lay Message-ID: <20070927021737.GC1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <46FAF5C1.4070106@comcast.net> <20070927021322.GB1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PuGuTyElPB9bOcsM" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070927021322.GB1216@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-06) X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-3.0 (lor.one-eyed-alien.net [127.0.0.1]); Wed, 26 Sep 2007 21:17:37 -0500 (CDT) Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: iwi oddities 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: Thu, 27 Sep 2007 02:17:39 -0000 --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--