sk0 and dhclient

[Derek Tattersall]

* Marcus Larsson (kore at mindwipe.org) [031213 19:04]:
> Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 13:23:14 +0100
> From: Marcus Larsson <kore at mindwipe.org>
> To: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Message-ID: <20031213122314.GV13101 at mindwipe.org>
> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i
> Subject: sk0 and dhclient
> 
>   
>   Hi *
> 
>   I have a 3com 940 ethernet card and I have ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
>   in my rc.conf. When I boot my machine it hangs on dhclient but
>   after a certain amount of time dhclient gives up and the boot
>   process continues. When I login and run 'dhclient sk0' it
>   works without any hazzle but I can't get an IP addy during
>   bootup. Now is anyone else experiencing this?
> 
>   skc0: <3Com 3C940 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xfeaf8000-0xfeafbfff irq 10 at device 5.0 on pci2
>   skc0: 3Com Gigabit LOM (3C940)
>   sk0: <Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon> on skc0
>   sk0: Ethernet address: 00:0c:6e:45:a7:b1
>   miibus0: <MII bus> on sk0
> 
>   FreeBSD smulan.rosa.local 5.2-RC FreeBSD 5.2-RC #0: Fri Dec 12 21:42:04 CET 2003
>   
>   Kind regards, marcus
> 
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iBecause I can get it to work by just restarting dhclient after it time
out, I figured I would try to earn my kernel hacker merit badge and
figure out what's going on.  No joy so far.  It's got to be some sort of
timing problem but I'm at a loss.  Anybody got a clue to offer?
-- 
Derek Tattersall			dlt at mebtel.net