1.8b Development

Using generic-pc-1.8.0b476.img with configuration 4 NIC's: LAN, WAN, OPT1 and OPT2 and a WLAN NIC RT2561S (0X:1X:5X:dX:7X:X3) which I don't use,yet.

I get the following on the console screen. Why the question?

Enter a number: wlan999: Ethernet address: 0X:1X:5X:dX:7X:X3

In the logs there is:

Jul 22 19:43:13    dhcpd: Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Server V3.1-ESV
Jul 22 18:22:01    kernel: wlan999: Ethernet address: 0X:1X:5X:dX:7X:X3
Jul 22 15:47:03    dnsmasq[86]: using nameserver 19X.1X9.XX.X6#53

Thanks in advance for any light you can shed!

I have seen similar also.

The "Enter a number:" refers to the numbered choices listed above it.

The "wlan999: Ethernet address: 0X:1X:5X:dX:7X:X3 " is being sent to the console at the current prompt position, which is just past the colon after the word "number".

I don't know why this is being sent to the console, looks like a bug.

I'm not sure what your question really was. Did this answer it?

Thanks for the light, it thought it was a bug and it doesn't look serious. I have been using M0n0 for a decade and thought I mentioned it. For me case closed.

This happens when you use the new edit WLAN page to add a new WLAN SSID to a physical WLAN interface that doesn't already have one. The problem is that in order to get the list of available channels for a given WLAN interface in FreeBSD 8.2, one first has to create a "wlanX" subinterface (you cannot query the channel list for the physical interface name). So that's why the wlan999 is temporarily created, causing a kernel message to be written to the console.

It's a cosmetic bug...

I never used the new edit WLAN page. Perhaps there is something in my 1.33 carried over config file that triggered it?

Same here. The line in the log file is created whenever going to the Wlan page and pressing the +. The console remark, "Enter number: wlan999......" not.

As for the config file, I did not transport my old xml file from 1.33 tot the new beta. I created a new one with generic-pc-1.8.0b472.img.