On Mon, Sep 28, 2026 at 07:30:05AM -0000, Crystal Kolipe wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 27, 2026 at 11:16:48PM -0400, Ed Heil wrote:
> You shouldn't specify an address, the router will assign one from it's pool.
The manpage said you should put an address in but you shouldn't expect
that that will necessarily be the address given back to you by the DHCP
server.
>
> > 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.
I did get a couple more lines after the fe80::!
iwm0:
flags=a48843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF6TEMP,AUTOCONF6,AUTOCONF4>
mtu 1500
lladdr 14:ab:c5:59:a2:c2
index 1 priority 4 llprio 3
groups: wlan egress
media: IEEE802.11 autoselect (VHT-MCS0 mode 11ac)
status: active
ieee80211: nwid Birdhouse chan 157 bssid 4e:d7:4a:52:35:ea 91% wpakey
wpaprotos wpa2 wpaakms psk,sha256-psk wpaciphers ccmp wpagroupcipher ccmp
inet6 fe80::16ab:c5ff:fe59:a2c2%iwm0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet6 2601:404:c183:3580:d966:18f8:e3c1:626c prefixlen 64 autoconf
pltime 5496 vltime 5496
inet6 2601:404:c183:3580:50a0:697a:3592:c4d8 prefixlen 64 autoconf
temporary pltime 5496 vltime 5496
