On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 12:06 PM Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.rac...@iki.fi> wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 11:54 AM Roy Marples <r...@marples.name> wrote: > > >> dhcpcd's wpa_supplicant hook was written to solely support hotplugging a > > >> USB > > >> wireless stick into a machine without any kind of hotplug support. > > >> Since then I have added then -M flag to wpa_supplicant so it can do it > > >> by itself. > > > > > > Which is a problem. dhcpcd and systemd currently compete for control > > > of the wireless device. systemd tries to rename it to follow > > > Predictable Network Interface Names at the same time as dhcpcd tries > > > to to connect it to a network. It results in configuration failing. > > > > Oh please. > > This issue was 9 solved years ago when I wrote a udev plugin for dhcpcd that > > forces dhcpcd to only "use" the interface when udev says the name has > > settled. > > https://github.com/NetworkConfiguration/dhcpcd/commit/12bbc8cb5c7507be15a7e0af4140c3d81125c46c > > Sure enough, existing Build-Dep inherited from the current packaging > did not pull libudev-dev. Added. Built and tested. Works well. Thanks > for pointing that out.
Btw, it would be a good idea for BUILDING.md to mention which libraries can optionally be used, such as libudev-dev in the above case. Ditto for configure to mention the package-specific options such as where to find and include additional hooks. Right now, it only shows generic instructions. Martin-Éric
