dhcpcd saying "wrong interface"

Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"

Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set the ip
address and the connection works.

On 14 Aug 2005 23:41:18 GMT, Unruh
<unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
> Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
> dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
> Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
> dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"
>
> Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set the ip
> address and the connection works.
>
What other interfaces do you have? ifconfig -a
If it works, maybe you don't need to worry about it.


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Bill Marcum <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>On 14 Aug 2005 23:41:18 GMT, Unruh
> <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>> Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
>> dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
>> Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
>> dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"
>>
>> Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set the ip
>> address and the connection works.
>>
>What other interfaces do you have? ifconfig -a
>If it works, maybe you don't need to worry about it.

An eth0 interface which is a wired static interface.
I am not worried, I am wondering why this error message which seems to have
nothing to do with what happens.

Unruh <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:ddokqu$dvm$(E-Mail Removed):

> Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
> dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
> Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
> dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"
>
> Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set
> the ip address and the connection works.
>
>
>

Maybe you should check your /etc/init.d/dhcp file.

Unruh wrote:
> Bill Marcum <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>
>
>>On 14 Aug 2005 23:41:18 GMT, Unruh
>> <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>>
>>>Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
>>>dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
>>>Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
>>>dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"
>>>
>>>Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set the ip
>>>address and the connection works.
>>>
>>
>>What other interfaces do you have? ifconfig -a
>>If it works, maybe you don't need to worry about it.
>
>
> An eth0 interface which is a wired static interface.
> I am not worried, I am wondering why this error message which seems to have
> nothing to do with what happens.

Have a look at the dhcpcd configuration file in /etc
(depends a little on client falvour) and the client
invocation command line. The interface may be mentioned
in either.

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rot <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Unruh <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>news:ddokqu$dvm$(E-Mail Removed):

>> Mandrake 10.1, Dlink g122 with ndiswrapper.
>> dhcpcd is coming back with the warning message
>> Determining IP information for wlan0... done.
>> dhcpcd.exe: wrong interface name "wlan0"
>>
>> Any idea what could be going on here. In the meantime dhcpcd has set
>> the ip address and the connection works.
>>
>>
>>

>Maybe you should check your /etc/init.d/dhcp file.

I finally found the problem. dhcpcd runs the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd.exe
after setting up the system In that script (NOT and exe file) is the line

case ${INTERFACE} in
eth*) ;;
*) logger -s -p local0.err -t dhcpcd.exe "wrong interface name
\"${INTERFACE}\""
exit 1
;;
esac

Ie if your interface is not called eth, it prints out that useless error
messages. Also this file as set up does absolutely nothing (except print
out fake error messages). It is there as an example, except that unlike
most example files, it is actually run by dhcpcd.
Silly.