dhcpcd-discuss

On 24/05/2018 23:47, JED wrote:
> 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.

On that note I'm away without a computer for a weeks holiday from today.

> 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.

That site has been down for a very long time.
I do miss it, but no replacement software currently meets my needs.
In what little copious free time I have I am working on a replacement, 
but as usual it turns out to be a bigger project than before, but also 
good learning excerise.

> 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?

Still want to know this :)

Roy