On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:53:42PM -0600, Ludwig Mises wrote:
I upgraded to OPENBSD_3_8_BASE (after first upgrading to the snapshot from
10/14) and wicontrol no longer seems to work:
quoting http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq5.html#Flavors :
One should also understand that the update process is
You tried to go back... (3.8-current - OPENBSD_3_8_BASE which
corresponds to 3.8-release). If you want 3.8-release, the easiest thing to
do will be to wait for the actual release, and then install from scratch.
Are you saying that the snapshot of 10/14 is 3.8-current? If so, my bad. Let
me
You tried to go back... (3.8-current - OPENBSD_3_8_BASE which
corresponds to 3.8-release). If you want 3.8-release, the easiest thing to
do will be to wait for the actual release, and then install from scratch.
Are you saying that the snapshot of 10/14 is 3.8-current? If so, my bad. Let
Of course it works perfectly in -current.
By the way, thank you for answering this question. Will this be backported
to 3.8-stable?
You did not report any problem in a decent way. I'm almost 100% sure you
created the problem yourself by not following the proper upgrade path.
This is very probable. Actually, it gets more complex than this... I
installed the snapshot from 10/14 and after rebooting the kernel wouldn't
boot.
Ludwig Mises wrote:
This is very probable. Actually, it gets more complex than this...
No, it doesn't.
Once you 'upgraded' from -current to -release, you guaranteed that you'd
see problems that the developers don't care about. You may have any
number of such problems, all stemming from
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005, Ludwig Mises wrote:
You did not report any problem in a decent way. I'm almost 100% sure you
created the problem yourself by not following the proper upgrade path.
This is very probable. Actually, it gets more complex than this... I
installed the snapshot from
At that point, I had to boot bsd.old because it simply refused to boot.
Based on the incorrect assumption that the snapshot was pre -release I
decided to download the kernel from 3.8-release and install that. The kernel
now booted but wi didn't work. I started looking at the differences
I upgraded to OPENBSD_3_8_BASE (after first upgrading to the snapshot from
10/14) and wicontrol no longer seems to work:
# wicontrol wi0
wicontrol: SIOCGWAVELAN (0xfd0b): Invalid argument
I notice that there was one change to sbin/wicontrol/wicontrol.c and a few
changes to sys/dev/ic/if_wi.c but
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