Updating current i386 broke wlan0...

[Jeffrey Bouquet]

On Fri, 11 Dec 2020 08:10:37 -0800, Steve Kargl <sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 06:12:42AM -0800, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
> > Longtime BSD current user, due to several constraints I had to update from a recent dec 10 image in
> > a quasi-piecemeal fashion.  Fixed all issues  [ I think ] From 11-Current to 13-Current except 
> >   service netif onestart wlan0 up
> > no longer completes. 
> > ....................................
> > /etc/rc.d/netif set_rcvar_obsolete: not found
> > eval: wlan_up: not found
> > starting wpa_supplicant
> > /etc/rc.d/wpa_supplicant: WARNING:  failed to start...
> > starting dhclient
> > eval: wlan0: not found
> > /etc/rc.d/dhclient: WARNING: failed to start dhclient
> > /etc/rc.d/netif:  WARNING: $ipv6_enable is not set properly, see rc.conf(5)
> > starting network wlan0
> > eval: check_startmsgs: not found
> > eval: afexits: not found
> > ..........................................................................................
> > Piecemeal update was needed because make toolchain and make buildworld
> > failed each early on.
> 
> I have a Dec 2 i386-*-freebsd (typing on it now), which uses wlan0
> over a lowly D-Link DWL-G630.  Works fine.  The change causing
> you problems appears to have occurred after Dec 2.
> 
> -- 
> Steve


Maybe, if new code was in wlan0 or *rc* 
or wpa_supplicant or /etc or run0, but I suspect it is some problem I
caused by not doing a proper upgrade.