On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 16:05 +0200, [email protected] wrote: > Dans son message du lundi 11/05/09 à 11:04, Dan Williams a écrit: > > > Is there a way of establishing (and keeping) > > > a WiFi connection with NetworkManager > > > before logging in? > > > [...] > > > > and after a reboot, you should be able to use the connection editor to > > mark your wifi connections as "Available to all users", which means they > > will be available before login. > > Hi, > > This wasn't working for me in Fedora 10, but I upgraded to Fedora 11 and > now it works nicely: the checkbox is no longer grayed out, I can check > it, a file ifcfg-Auto_xxx appears in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and > NetworkManager picks it at boot time. > > However, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network picks it also. For each file
Yup chkconfig network off will turn that off for you and let NM just do its job. Dan > ifcfg-something in this repertory, the network service tries to run ifup > on it. For instance, I have an ifcfg-Auto_tudia which contains > ESSID="tudia" > MODE=Managed > SECURITYMODE=open > DEFAULTKEY=1 > TYPE=Wireless > BOOTPROTO=dhcp > PEERDNS=yes > PEERROUTES=yes > NAME="Auto tudia" > UUID=12ea49ce-5559-4adb-bae7-d5e12f33ef82 > ONBOOT=yes > LAST_CONNECT=1247345950 > and if I run "ifup Auto_tudia", as is done at boot time by > /etc/rc.d/init.d/network, I see > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... > Try `grep --help' for more information. > Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]... > Try `grep --help' for more information. > > Determining IP information for ... failed; no link present. Check > cable? > The timeout takes 6 seconds. > > Actually, I have serveral wireless networks for NetworkManager of the > form ifcfg-Auto_xxx, and for each of them I have the two error messages > from grep and the 6 second timeout. > > In the end, everything works, but this minor problem makes booting take a > longer time ! How can I avoid that ? > > I tried to set ONBOOT=no in the file. /etc/rc.d/init.d/network now > ignores them, but it seems that NetworkManager ignores them also. > I tried to leave ONBOOT=yes and stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/network from being > run at all, but then I don't have anymore a loopback interface. > > 1) Is there a solution to avoid the delays ? > 2) Shouldn't this solution be on by default when nm-connection-editor > creates the files ? > 3) why does ifup choke on these ifcfg files ? > > Thanks, > > Éric Brunet > > > _______________________________________________ > NetworkManager-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
