conflict between netif and pccard_ether...

[Adrian Chadd]

Why'd you remove these:

-DCONFIG_GAS \
-DPKCS12_FUNCS

?


-a


On 21 June 2014 03:40, John-Mark Gurney <jmg at funkthat.com> wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote this message on Thu, Jun 19, 2014 at 09:17 -0400:
>> On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 7:13:18 pm John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>> > So, I recently was trying to figure out why wireless on my notebook
>> > wouldn't work..  I would boot up the machine w/o the wireless
>> > configured, uncomment the lines in rc.conf, and then run
>> > "service netif start"...
>> >
>> > Wireless would associate, but when disconnect... After some
>> > investigation, it turns out that two copies of wpa_supplicant are
>> > being launched... I believe one from netif, and another from
>> > pccard_ether launched by devd...
>> >
>> > The issue is that both netif and pccard_ether "claim" ownership of
>> > them.  pccard_ether will ignore the ifconfig_ line if NOAUTO is
>> > specified.  IMO, we need to make one or the other "own" configuring
>> > and launching the interface...
>> >
>> > There is also the issue that wpa_sup doesn't use proper locking on
>> > the pidfile and allows two copies to be launched...  My thoughts
>> > is to convert it to pidfile to fix this issue the easiest...
>>
>> I think this is actually the best fix.  dhclient handles this correctly for
>> this reason.
>>
>> > Comments?  Suggestions?
>>
>> We had a thread a few months ago about this very topic and I committed changes
>> to the rc.d scripts that I then had to revert because it broke other use
>> cases.  Having the redundant start be harmless is the simplest way to handle
>> this.
>
> Ok, I converted wpa_supplicant to use pidfile(3), and it successfully
> fixes the issue I had... I get the error that wpa_supplicant is already
> running... It looks like in my case, devd was beating out netif in
> launching wpa_sup...
>
> I've attached the patch...
>
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