Fedora Users — Re: Service start order question

Mark C. Allman wrote:

If you look at my original post, you'll see that I described why it
doesn't work.  The default service start order (I believe) is:
  network
  messagebus
  wpa_supplicant

If network tries to bring up a wireless connection that uses
wpa_supplicant, it will fail.  I'm asking if anyone ever somehow managed
to being up a wireless connection that uses wpa_supplicant when network
starts but before wpa_supplicant is started.  I can't see how, but just
because I can't doesn't mean it's a bug.  If nobody can then perhaps
it's time for a Bugzilla report.  I'm just trying to be thorough.

BTW, I'm running kernel 2.6.23.14-107.fc8 and use the package
    iwl3945-firmware-2.14.1.5-2
for the Intel Pro/Wireless 3945 in my Dell XPS 1710 laptop.  I used to
use the atrpm packages.  I've found that after resuming from hibernate I
sometimes need to restart (stop/start) wpa_supplicant before I can bring
up the wireless connection.

I think the problem is because the people that set the order figuredthat the network service would be used more for servers, and use awired connection. (I believe it only runs on run level 3 now.) Fordesktop use, on run level 5, network manager is supposed to runinstead. In practice, it did not work out that way. You will have tocheck, but I think there is a bug filed about this.

I would call this a bug. This is one of the things that tends toshow up in real use - people using the system in ways theprogrammers didn't think they would.


Mikkel
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