"Mario Rossi" <mariofutire@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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 FC6 I used to start wpa_supplicant at timeslot #9 just before the nework was started. For some reason this stopped working in F7. Perhaps the iwconfigs had less effect in FC6, either due to timing reasons or something else was preventing them from working if the card was active. I'll try playing a bit with a simplified ifup-wireless. I wonder if ifup-ethernet would work for wpa_supplicant wireless interfaces . (Can't test it now since I'm using the wireless to type this.) > 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. In my case if I even sneeze the wrong way wpa_supplicant gets lost and loops endlessly trying to associate. Stopping wpa_supplicant and ifdown, ifup on the interface is the only way out of the loop. So I guess the short answer is "yes I have problems restarting the network". ;-) -wolfgang -- Wolfgang S. Rupprecht http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/ IPv6 on Fedora 7 http://www.wsrcc.com/wolfgang/fedora/ipv6-tunnel.html
