>Number:         9457
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       wiconfig(8) fails in /etc/netstart
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer (NetBSD/i386 Portmaster)
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Feb 20 23:09:00 2000
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ed Gould
>Organization:
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Ed Gould	 Palo Alto Advanced Development	 Compaq Computer Corp.
+1 650 853 2108	 ed@pa.dec.com			 130 Lytton Avenue
		 ed.gould@compaq.com		 Palo Alto, CA 94301
>Release:        1.4T, probably 1.4S also
>Environment:
System: NetBSD rome 1.4T NetBSD 1.4T (ROME) #25: Sun Feb 20 18:30:51 PST 2000 ed@rome:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ROME i386


>Description:
	When wiconfig(8) is invokde in /etc/netstart, just before
	starting dhclient, the configuration is not set and the
	message

		wi0: timeout in wi_seek to fc00/0; last status ffff

	is generated.  The same invocation worked with 1.4R (and might
	have worked with 1.4S).  It does work after the system is up
	nulti-user.

>How-To-Repeat:
	In /etc/netstart:

	    if checkyesno dhclient; then
	      WL=`ifconfig -l | sed -e 's/.*\(wi.\).*/\1/'`
	      if [ -n "$WL" ]; then
		echo -n "configuring WaveLAN $WL ... "
		wiconfig $WL -p 1
	      fi
	      echo -n "starting dhcp client...";
	      dhclient $dhclient_flags
	    fi

	Note that the failure persists when wi0 is explicitly coded.)

>Fix:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: