Netcfg - wpa issue

Question

Hi all,
few updates ago netcfg switched to 2.5.2, but now i'm in trouble; a previous post highlights the same
problem: netcfg seems to be forced on WPA authentication even when i set SECURITY=none, but he
resolves downgrading netcfg from rc2 to a stable release, now 2.5.2 is in core so downgrading couldn't
be permitted ;-)
DEBUG: Loading profile 3-wifi-home
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
:: 3-wifi-home up [BUSY] DEBUG: status reported to profile_up as:
DEBUG: Loading profile 3-wifi-home
DEBUG: Configuring interface wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up stop_wpa wlan0
DEBUG: wireless_up ifup
DEBUG: wireless_up Configuration generated at /tmp/wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf
DEBUG: wireless_up start_wpa wlan0 /tmp/wpa.wlan0/wpa.conf wext
DEBUG: wireless_up wpa_check
> WPA Authentication/Association Failed
DEBUG: profile_up connect failed
[FAIL]
my profile:
CONNECTION="wireless"
DESCRIPTION="Static IP wlan0 [home]"
INTERFACE="wlan0"
SECURITY="none"
SCAN="no"
ESSID="ff0000-wifi"
MODE="managed"
CHANNEL="11"
IP="static"
IFOPTS="192.168.0.31 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.0.255"
GATEWAY="192.168.0.1"
DNS=("192.168.0.1" "85.37.17.44")
and finally the tool's version:
Name : netcfg
Version : 2.5.2-1
URL : http://archlinux.org
Licenses : BSD
Groups : None
Provides : None
Depends On : wireless_tools coreutils wpa_supplicant>=0.6.8 net-tools
dhcpcd>=4.0 iproute2
Optional Deps : dialog: Required for menu based profile selector
wpa_actiond: Required for automatic wireless connection with
rc.d/net-auto-wireless
ifplugd: Required for automatic wired connection with rc.d/net-auto-wired
Required By : None
Conflicts With : None
Replaces : None
Installed Size : 268.00 K
Packager : James Rayner <[email protected]>
Architecture : any
Build Date : Thu 18 Feb 2010 10:14:45 AM CET
Install Date : Thu 18 Feb 2010 03:57:23 PM CET
Install Reason : Explicitly installed
Install Script : No
Description : Network configuration and profile scripts
Any hints?
Cheers,
ff0000

Answer 1

Okay, some more googling pinpointed the source of the intermittent network connectivity: I haven't been killing off the old wpa_supplicant processes. But, I'm still getting the same netcfg errors when I start clean with no dhcpcd's or wpa_supplicant's running.
If I watch the processes that are running while netcfg tries to start, I see wpa_supplicant being called correctly (with just an extra -P /var/path/to/some/file.pid compared to what I'm running), but dhcpcd doesn't start at all. Does anone know what's going on between those two commands?