Description: When 'netcfg2 -a' is issued, it does not bring down the interface associated with the profile. This is true when issued manually, or through the net-profile daemon. This has the side effect of causing a hard freeze while loading the BIOS when soft booting on my system.

Workaround:

1) This can be fixed by adding 'ifconfig ath0 down' after '/usr/bin/netcfg2 -a' in rc.d/net-profiles.

2) Oddly enough (to me, anyway), it doesn't work if 'ifconfig ath0 down' is issued <i>before</i> 'netcfg2 -a'

3) It does, however, work if 'netcfg2 -a' is issued again after 'netcfg -a; ifconfig ath0 down'
3a) this allows the fix to be made in rc.local.shutdown

There are no errors at any time.

netcfg 2.06-1

I'm only able to attempt this on one system, unfortunately. But it may be related to  bug 10708 .