Bug 210780

Description of problem:

At system boot there is a timing problem where ipw2200 wireless firmware
sometimes fails to load in time. The driver emits a message that says it is
delaying initialization. This results in the device being given a 'fake' device
name rather than (in my case) eth1.

In versions of network manager up to about fc6 test 2 network manager would find
the 'fake' device ID and the network would function properly.

Recent versions of network manager don't seem to handle this situation well. Now
it is able to talk to the wireless card (it can see various networks) but will
not connect to any of them.

As a workaround I am able to rmmod ipw2200 and then insmod it again. This allows
eth1 to be created and work, although network manager still refuses to connect
to anything.

Note that I have 3 laptops, one with ipw2200, one with ipw2100 and another with
a hermes card. All are running a completely updated rawhide and all three have
very unstable (that is, can't connect to wireless ap's that can be seen) network
managers.

(Aside... I don't know if this has any relevance, but all three systems
encountered the problem with the hal (dbus?) rpm post install scriptlet failing
due to a typo)

Oct 14 15:27:40 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_mode (): error getting card mode on
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:27:40 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): could not trigger wireless scan on device
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:27:40 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_mode (): error getting card mode on
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:28:48 localhost java: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for "www.gay.com IN
AAAA", got type "A"
Oct 14 15:29:54 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_mode (): error getting card mode on
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:29:54 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_mode (): error getting card mode on
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:29:54 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_scan (): could not trigger wireless scan on device
__tmp1804289383: No such device 
Oct 14 15:29:54 localhost NetworkManager: <WARNING>     
nm_device_802_11_wireless_get_mode (): error getting card mode on
__tmp1804289383: No such device 

[darrell@localhost gspcav1-20060925]$ ls -l /var/run
total 224
srw-rw-rw- 1 root  root      0 Oct 14 08:15 acpid.socket
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:16 atd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:15 auditd.pid
srwxr-xr-x 1 root  root      0 Oct 14 08:15 audit_events
drwxr-xr-x 2 avahi avahi  4096 Oct 14 08:16 avahi-daemon
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root   4096 Oct 14 08:16 console
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:16 crond.pid
drwxr-xr-x 3 root  lp     4096 Oct  5 08:43 cups
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:15 cupsd.pid
drwxr-xr-x 2 root  root   4096 Oct 14 08:15 dbus
---------- 1 root  root      4 Oct 14 08:16 dhcdbd.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:18 dhclient-eth1.pid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root  root      5 Oct 14 08:17 dhclient-__tmp1804289383.pid