Bug 173785

Summary: Need delay between ifup-wireless and checking link status
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Anton Solovyev <anton>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Anton Solovyev 2005-11-21 05:27:24 UTC
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Description of problem:
I have ipw2200 wireless card in a laptop. It takes some (though fairly short) time for the card to connect to the network when WEP is enabled.

The ifup script is written in such a way that it checks link status right after ifup-wireless is executed. In my case there is not enough time for the card to connect and the link status check that immediately follows in the code fails (on boot).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.11.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  Wireless interface is not brought up on boot.

Expected Results:  The opposite.

Additional info:

I suggest letting user to insert a delay in the very end of the ifup-wireless. A variable in ifcfg-ethX would be fine.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-08-07 18:29:57 UTC
Current rawhide initscripts has a LINKDELAY parameter which may solve this for you.