wpa_supplicant works cli but not from rc.conf

[davidgurvich]

I have an access point that uses WEP encryption and connecting to that without wpa_supplicant works fine, both manually from the command line and in rc.conf. If I try to change to using wpa_supplicant, for the purpose of using multiple profiles, starting manually works but using rc.conf fails.

ifconfig_wlan0="WPA DHCP"

As I understand that it should do the same as

wpa_supplicant ... -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf
dhclient wlan0

I just /etc/rc.d/netif restart and this time it worked!!!???? Nothing changed in between.