dhcpcd-discuss

I'll gladly post whatever you'd like in a few days. Today I'm at the 
cabin planting thousands of trees. This is where I'd like to use RPi 
with the cellular modem to make a wifi hotspot for low speed and low 
volume (at low cost) over the winter and I'll return home this weekend 
but be hosting grandkids and their friends. The oldest can drive and the 
youngest is four so it will be mayhem until Tuesday.

I couldn't find a current description of dhcpcd.conf online anywhere so 
I logged into another RPi running that version of Linux at home:
> Linux 4.9.80+ #1098 Fri Mar 9 18:51:28 GMT 2018 armv6l
> PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
> dhcpcd 6.11.5
> Copyright (c) 2006-2016 Roy Marples
> Compiled in features: INET IPv4LL INET6 DHCPv6 AUTH
and did a "man dhcpcd.conf" and nolink looks like it is EXACTLY what I 
need!  WOW!  Thanks and I'll try that as soon as I can.

P.S. This version of everything does NOT have the SEGV that I'd 
previously fixed by building 7.0.0 RC1 so I haven't messed with your 
current software.
PPS: I looked on your website for dhcpcd.conf info and found that your 
support page fails with:
> Can Not Connect to MySQL
> Unable to connect to MySQL!
>
> Unable to establish a connection to any database host (while trying "phabricator_config"). All masters and replicas are completely unreachable.
and more.

On 5/24/2018 10:44 AM, Roy Marples wrote:
> On 24/05/2018 14:06, JED wrote:
>  > I figured out wpa_supplicant by listing the processes. I used the
>  > dhcpcd.conf to turn off the wpa_supplicant invocation. That worked and
>  > that got me a bit more but since dhcpcd was waiting for carrier even
>  > after I had a connection I was stuck and quit using it all together.

> dhclient doesn't do any carrier detection.
> dhcpcd does.
>
> If the kernel driver can't report it correctly, use the -K option on the 
> command line or nolink in dhcpcd.conf
>
> Out of curiosity, can you post the output of ifconfig or `ip a` please?
>
> Roy