dhcpcd-discuss

Hi,

Just upgraded to v5 on my laptop and I like it a lot. However there's an interesting problem with how it behaves in the presence of 
the linux rfkill stuff.

I'm running kernel 2.6.30 with an intel 3945 card on an HP 6510b. When booting with the physical wireless kill switch enabled you 
get a wlan0 interface that cannot be brought up using ifconfig or iproute tools. This leads to dhcpcd ignoring the interface 
completely since it seems to check that it can up the interface before adding it to it's internal list.

At some later point when I press the physical switch to enable the wireless card there's a rfkill/change event sent and I can use 
that to bring the interface up with iproute. The problem is that I can't work out how to get dhcpcd to re-evaluate the list of 
interfaces it's monitoring without killing & restarting it.

I'm not familiar enough with the code, but I couldn't see any signals or anything that would allow me to add an interface to an 
already running instance. Is there such a thing ?

Maybe the other choice would be for dhcpcd to catch the rfkill events on netlink and just do the right thing ?  You seem to be 
hooked into netlink anyway, but I don't know if it's feasible to trap rfkill events on the same socket.

Suggestions appreciated.

Thanks,