"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" <wolfgang rupprecht+gnus200706 gmail com> writes: Playing around it seems that the only way to keep wpa_supplicant happy is to start it after the interface is brought up but before dhclient is started on the interface. The simplest way to hack this was to put this at the end of /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless: # wsrcc hack start if [ ! -S /var/run/wpa_supplicant/$DEVICE ] then wpa_supplicant -c /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf -i$DEVICE -Dmadwifi -B fi
I've found a different (and in my opinion) better way: 1) start wpa_supplicant service (for some reasons it starts AFTER the network, you have to change it). (this point is a bit tricky if multiple wireless interfaces are involved). 2) add something like WPA=yes to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 3) change /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless to skip every settings via iwconfig since wpa_supplicant has already done the job (if WPA=yes) In that way wpa_supplicant is run only once. In your setup, can you actually take the interface down and up again? It looks to me that, if you don't do 3) the 2nd time the interface does not go up anymore. Cheers
