Re: upgrade to 8.99.1 - dhcpcd woe

[Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost>]

Hi Iain


On 06/06/17 21:28, Iain Hibbert wrote:
> Hi
>
> Upgrading to 8.99.1 (from 7.99.52) on my laptop .. network didn't work;
> what was strange that I was being set up on 10.*.*.* and never had before.
> Firefox started complaining that I might need to login but no pages would
> load.
>
> It turns out that /libexec/dhcpcd-hooks/10-wpa_supplicant is marked as
> obsolete in the set lists; this means that postinstall will remove it,
> which is clearly wrong because *I* copied it there from the examples
> folder as I need it (otherwise dhcpcd connects to the nearest open
> network, which I don't want as it won't work for me)

I'll let the people who bitched to me about removing it come up with a 
solution to that problem.
I'm sunning myself on holiday and I don't have the grey matter for 
serious though right now.
But it's probably not needed, see below.

> I don't know how best to fix that.. clearly its at cross-purposes?

Look into the wpa_supplicant interface matching support documented in 
wpa_supplicant(8).
Hint:

wpa_supplicant_flags="-M -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"

or

wpa_supplicant_flags="-M -i iwn* -c /etc/wpa_supplicant.conf"

Roy