Static IP Address Problem with Sabayon 10

[BHReach]

Using Sabayon 10 SpinBase and wpa_supplicant.

Using global naming in /etc/conf.d/net no longer works. Worked with SL 8 and 9.

Example:

config_essid="192.168.0.25/24"
route_essid="default via 192.168.0.5"

This causes an IP address of 169.254.88.244 to be assigned to wlan0 with default gateway 169.254.0.0. I've seen that IP address before it is some kind of a default value.

If I replace the essid with wlan0, the correct address and route get assigned.

Does anyone know what caused this change?