Somebody in the thread at some point said: > I am running fedora 7. I know the wireless works but the prgram I was > using shuts down the wired portion when the wireless is working. In > addition, I can not get the machine to boot with wpa active, the > wireless portion times out when it boots up. You need to disable NetworkManager # chkconfig NetworkManager off # service NetworkManager stop There is a longstanding bug with wpa_supplicant run outside of NetworkManager. It is set to run at ordinal 12 in the initscripts, the "network" service which brings up the interfaces is set for ordinal 10. The result is during boot, it tries to bring up your wireless interface before the encrypted association has taken place, which craps out with glorious inevitability. What I have being doing is editing /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant to change the line (it begins with a #) # chkconfig: - 12 88 to # chkconfig: - 09 88 and then run # chkconfig wpa_supplicant off # chkconfig wpa_supplicant on In addition to do it by hand you need to set /etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant accordingly. -Andy
