defaultrouter fails on boot, and reinserted card not gettingcorrect config info...

[John]

Hi!
I'm running 5.1 on a laptop. [sephtin at draxa ~]$ uname -a
FreeBSD draxa.techgodz.com 5.1-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5 #1: Mon 
Oct 6 10:35:12 CDT 2003     
root at draxa.techgodz.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/draxa i386

I have 2 problems:
1) When booting, with a PC-Card (wi0) in, no matter what defaultrouter= 
is set to in /etc/start_if.wi0 it always uses what's in /etc rc.conf.  I 
don't understand!  /etc/start_if.${interface} is sourced in both 
/etc/network.subr, as well as /etc/pccard_ether.

It is DEFINITELY getting my card's ifconfig_wi0 info from start_if.wi0 
(as that is the only place I have the ssid, wepmode and wepkey set, and 
it finds them correctly...).
Shouldn't I be able to override the defaultrouter= in rc.conf with 
what's in /etc/start_if.wi0???

Just thought to add:  the default route that I'm trying to add IS on the 
same subnet as the IP of the nic... so it isn't failing because of that...


2) On my laptop, I have 2 pccards.  One is the dlink wireless (wi0) 
mentioned above, the other is a linksys 10/100.  I NEVER have them in at 
the same time.

When I boot with the wireless card in (after setting the default route 
by hand... (see problem #1), I remove the card.  I get notification that 
the card has been removed (wi0: detached).  I then re-insert the card, 
and get a
notification that the card was inserted(wi0: <card info from 
pccard.conf>..., followed by it's mac, chipset, and supported rates.

When I do an ifconfig, it does NOT contain my info for the card (IP, 
netmask, ssid, wepmode, nor wepkey).  Shouldn't it get this info from 
/etc/start_if.wi0???
I would think it should get both the ifconfig_wi0 parameters, as well as 
the default router.
It is also strange to note, that even if I have defaultrouter= set in 
rc.conf, it doesn't access it from there... ?

Google has so far told me how I'm supposed to set up defaultrouter= in 
my rc.conf, but doesn't go into what in the startup scripts is failing.

Can anyone shed some light, or at least point me in the right direction??
Thanks!
John