[ale] dhcpcd woes for wlan0

[Tim Watts]

I got it working. Thanks anyway. I believe I was not issuing the correct 
encryption keys in iwconfig. Thanks for your help.


On Saturday 08 July 2006 01:00, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-07-08 at 00:02 -0400, Tim Watts wrote:
> > iwconfig always displays that warning -- even when it was working. If all
> > goes well dhcpcd should exit with 0. man dhcpcd does not document the
> > exit codes. What could be the problem?
>
> Interesting... I went through the source code for dhcpcd really quick
> with grep, and found that there is no place in the source code where it
> gives the exit status of 14 explicitly.  However, it does seem that
> dhcpcd does have one point where it exits with whatever signal kills it.
> Check your syslog and see if you have a message in it that says
> something to the effect of "terminating on signal %d" where %d would
> possibly be 14 (SIGALRM).
>
> The only thing about that, is that it would seem that SIGALRM shouldn't
> make dhcpcd die... the man page states that "SIGALRM . . . forces dhcpcd
> to try to renew the lease" which means that it should react to SIGALRM
> in a manner other then terminating.  *shrugs*
>
> So, you've got me.
>
> 	- Mike
>
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