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Old 19th January 2012
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Originally Posted by tolstoi View Post
I've only added my wireless to rc.conf and that is a little confusing to me why the system tries to bring up the ethernet connection as well.
I suspect you added a command to ifconfig(8) which configures your wireless interface to rc.conf. This will configure your wireless interface every time you boot.

Most people don't want this. By placing the command into an executable script in your home directory, ~/bin/, or where ever the script can be found on the path, you can manually configure the interface whenever you want.

I also suspect there is an ifconfig.if(5) file specific to your Ethernet interface in /etc/. The purpose of this file is to configure an interface consistently upon every boot. From your comments, this may be source of your confusion. Your Ethernet interface is so configured, but your wireless interface wasn't until you forced a similar configuration into rc.conf.
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