Mention that a few ed(4) devices don't emit link state change notices

and a workaround for dhclient.

Reviewed by:	 thierry
MFC after:	3 days
This commit is contained in:
brooks 2009-09-09 20:28:58 +00:00
parent 91e4a6b834
commit 7767fd5cfa

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@ -425,3 +425,21 @@ driver is slow by today's standards.
.Pp
PC Card attachment supports the D-Link DMF650TX LAN/Modem card's Ethernet
port only at this time.
.Pp
Some devices supported by
.Nm
do no generate the link state change events used by
.Xr devd 8
to start
.Xr dhclinet 8 .
If you have problems with
.Xr dhclient 8
not starting and the device is always attached to the network it may
be possible to work around this by changing
.Dq Li DHCP
to
.Dq Li SYNCDHCP
in the
.Va ifconfig_ed0
entry in
.Pa /etc/rc.conf .