On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 11:16:48PM -0400, Ed Heil wrote: > I'm looking at the man page for dhcpcd and cobbled together this command > which looks like it should do the thing? However it does not. > > # dhcpcd iwm0 -r 10.0.0.176 (I picked that address randomly, it's higher > than any current assigned address)
You shouldn't specify an address, the router will assign one from it's pool. > dhcpcd-10.3.1 starting > iwm0: is a Virtual Interface Master, skipping > iwm0: interface not found > dhcpcd exited That's odd. @Stuart can you confirm that, (recent versions of), dhcpcd do actually work as expected with wireless NICs? The 'Virtual Interface Master' message is apparently, (from reading the source code), supposed to be triggered by the device not returing a valid SSID. This looks like two separate problems, I think this is completely unrelated to the main problem. Out of curiosity, and whilst we wait for more input from Stuart, you can also try setting IPv6 to autoconf with: # ifconfig iwm0 inet6 autoconf You'll get an fe80:: address assigned locally, (which doesn't imply any communication with the router occurred). But if you get anything else, either a global IP or a ULA address, then that would be interesting.
