conflict between netif and pccard_ether...

[John-Mark Gurney]

Adrian Chadd wrote this message on Sat, Jun 21, 2014 at 07:36 -0700:
> Why'd you remove these:
> 
> -DCONFIG_GAS \
> -DPKCS12_FUNCS

Hun? I didn't...  I think your mail client is broken and ate the
white space at the begining of the line...

> 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...
> >
> > --
> >   John-Mark Gurney                              Voice: +1 415 225 5579
> >
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> >
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     "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."