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Subject:Desired behaviour of 'ifconfig -alias' [ath and ifconfig parameter order]
From:Freddie Cash (fca@ocis.net)
Date:Feb 13, 2007 6:08:35 am
List:org.freebsd.freebsd-stable

On Mon, February 12, 2007 8:01 pm, Sam Leffler wrote:

Freddie Cash wrote:

On Monday 12 February 2007 11:06 am, John Hay wrote:

Also with the atheros driver I had problems in the past with some parameters that did not like to be on a single commandline.

At least with the ath(4) driver, it all comes down to the order the options are written on the commandline. Some options reset the device, wiping out previous options, so you have to make sure those are set first. Took me awhile to figure that out, but it is mentioned in the man page.

So can someone actually provide an example? I'm not aware of any interactions within the os. There might be some corner cases in ifconfig due to the way it processes cmdn line parameters.

I remember back in the 5.3 days when I first got my Toshiba laptop with an Atheros SuperG chipset onboard and was trying to get WEP connection working, I had to specify the channel as the first option on the ifconfig line. Putting it anywhere else, especially after the wepmode and wepkey options would cause the link to fail -- and none of the wep options would be set, just the channel. Using the exact same options, but in a different order, would work.

Since switching to WPA, though, and configuring everything via wpa_supplicant.conf, I haven't had any issues with this. In fact, I don't use ifconfig at all anymore. A simple ifconfig_ath0="WPA DHCP" is all I ever need ... along with a nice long wpa_supplicant.conf with an entry for each of the wireless network I connect to. (The FreeBSD method of using WPA is soooooo much nicer than the Debian way.)

I'll play around with my laptop this week and see if I can reproduce this on 6.2.

---- Freddie Cash fca@ocis.net