Annoying ERROR: 'wlan0' is not a DHCP-enabled interface

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Tue Dec 27 04:49:54 UTC 2011


On Dec 26, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Doug Barton wrote:

> On 12/26/2011 19:12, Warner Losh wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 26, 2011, at 7:57 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>> 
>>> <devd.conf.diff>
>> 
>> I like this patch, but only as one of the originators of the original
>> kludge.  At the time I did it, rcng wasn't as well defined as things are
>> today.  If this correction is needed, I'm all for it.
> 
> Thank you for looking it over. You're correct that at the time the call
> to dhclient was added to devd.conf (6.5 years ago) the feature of netif
> that allows configuration of 1 interface at a time was still new'ish,
> and not quite fully congealed.

Yea, this actually replaces a mechanism that was used in pccardd that dates back about 10 or more years.  When devd.conf replaced pccardd, we tried to map it as closely as possible and get rid of the (poorly named) pccard_ether script...

I haven't looked into the deeper issue of the bogus error messages, or if they are bogus at all or not...

Warner



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