devd wlan wpa

[Alexandre]

Hi,
There is this entry for the network aggregation in the Handbook
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-aggregation.html
You will be able to switch from wired to wifi card (and vice versa).

Regards,
Alexandre


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:14 AM, CeDeROM <cederom at tlen.pl> wrote:

> Hello :-)
>
> I want to setup wpa_supplicant to start after wlan0 interface gets up.
> The rc.conf ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP" does the job only at boot. When
> I get the interface down I need to start everything by hand, which is
> a bit annoying when I test a lot and need to switch between Ethernet
> and WiFi interfaces very often. I have tried to write devd rule:
>
> notify 0 {
>         match "system"          "IFNET";
>         match "subsystem"       "wlan[0-9]+";
>         match "type"            "LINK_UP";
>         media-type              "802.11";
>         match "device-name"     "wlan[0-9]+";
>         action "/usr/sbin/wpa_supplicant -i $device-name -c
> /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -B";
> };
>
> But there goes the chicken-egg problem - I want to run wpa_supplicant
> on LINK_UP event that occurs when Media Status is "connected", but to
> get that "connected" status I need to run  wpa_supplicant first, so
> capabilities of devd are not enough in this case, or I miss something?
> Is there any distinction between LINK_UP and IF_UP?
>
> Any hints appreciated :-)
> Tomek
>
> --
> CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://www.tomek.cedro.info
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