Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 19:58:20 -0700 From: Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com> To: Glen Barber <gjb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why wpa_supplicant doesn't start with ndis0 interface? Message-ID: <50514BCC.3010607@rawbw.com> In-Reply-To: <20120913015904.GC1341@glenbarber.us> References: <505136E8.6010708@rawbw.com> <20120913015904.GC1341@glenbarber.us>
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On 09/12/2012 18:59, Glen Barber wrote: > What is 'uname -a'? FreeBSD xxx.xxx.org 9.0-STABLE FreeBSD 9.0-STABLE #0: Mon Jul 9 19:29:05 PDT 2012 xxx@xxx.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > I'm surprised you can have ndis(4) load during boot. Recent machines I > tried to do that have panic'd during boot. I have these lines in /boot/loader.conf and if_ndis and ndis(4) based driver load fine: ndis_load="YES" if_ndis_load="YES" bcmwl5_sys_load="YES" > > Can you try creating a crontab entry to load ndis(4) post-boot? > > # start ndis(4) post-boot > @reboot root /sbin/kldload /boot/kernel/if_ndis.ko >/dev/null 2>&1 > > Something similar to that worked for me to get the device to work close > to boot time, without panic. Once loaded, wpa_supplicant(8) worked > fine. > > Please also see: > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/165630 > > which I would would be MFC'd already... What you are suggesting is for the case when loading if_ndis causes panic during boot. In my case it loads fine during boot, but it's not clear why '/etc/rc.d/netif' doesn't activate it. network works fine once all commands are run manually. Yuri
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