8.0 regression: wireless network slow to initialise ?

[martinko]

martinko wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> On Friday 08 January 2010 4:38:40 am martinko wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> $ egrep 'sk0|wlan' /etc/rc.conf.local
>>> ifconfig_sk0="DHCP"
>>> wlans_iwi0="wlan0"
>>> ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"
>>>
>>> When booting up or netif restart:
>>>
>>> Starting Network: lo0 sk0.
>>> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
>>> options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
>>> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>>> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
>>> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>>> sk0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>>> 1500
>>> options=b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
>>> ether 00:11:22:33:44:55
>>> media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
>>> status: no carrier
>>>
>>> Please note that iwi/wlan is not even mentioned. (!)
>>> The same happens whether booting up or via /etc/rc.d/netif restart.
>>
>> Yes, the part of the netif script that prints out interfaces doesn't
>> handle
>> child interfaces like wlan or vlan devices currently. I'm not fully
>> sure of
>> the best way to fix it.
>>
>>> On older versions of FreeBSD iwi0 was turned up and associated.
>>> With 8.0 I am getting errors from services started on boot that try to
>>> reach the network (e.g. ntpd). It also seems to break lagg for me.
>>
>> SYNCDHCP should fix the problems with ntpd. I have no idea about
>> lagg(4), you
>> would probably need to ask a more specific question about what exact
>> breakage
>> you are seeing.
>>
>
> Indeed, SYNCDHCP fixed ntpd and others.
>
> Regarding lagg, please see my reply to your hint from week ago:
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2009-December/011861.html
>
> Even with explicit 'network_interfaces' it did not change/help. And
> please note that lagg was listed twice when stopping and starting via
> netif script (pls see the link above for details).
>

FYI:

Serge Semenenko just posted a workaround on freebsd-mobile@ to 
iwi/wlan/lagg issues reported and I can confirm it helps here.