Bug 430176

Summary:	ifup-wireless should start wpa-supplicant on-demand
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	ZioTibia <ziotibia1>
Component:	initscripts	Assignee:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	low
Version:	10	CC:	lemenkov, rvokal
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Description ZioTibia 2008-01-25 00:39:08 UTC

Description of problem:

Actually in systemV init network start before than wpa_supplicant.
I have one wlan interface active at boot time with dhcp and wlan network 
is wpa protected. 
Network service try to bring up wlan interface but it fail beacuse
no dhcp server is found. It can't found a dhcp server because network
link isn't ready: wpa_supplicant isn't started yet !!!

When boot is complete I manually run "service network restart" and
wlan interface came up regolarry because now wpa_supplicant is running
and dhcp client could discover a dhcp server.

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

wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-21.fc8

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure a wlan interface with ONBOOT=yes and BOOTPROTO=dhcp
2. Configure correctly wpa_supplicant to bind wlan interfare and wpa protected
network with dhcp server active.
3. Reboot pc
  
Actual results:

When network start automatic bringing up of wlan0 fail beacuse it can't
find dhcp server beacause wpa_supplicant isn't already started and network
link couldn't be estabilish.

Expected results:

wpa_suplicant start before network service

Additional info:

on /etc/init.d/wpa_supplicant I've modified 
# chkconfig:   - 28 75
in
# chkconfig:   - 5 95
and run 

chkconfig --level 5 wpa_supplicant on

but in /etc/rc.d/rc5.d/ there are always
S28wpa_supplicant and K72wpa_supplicant
inside of
S05wpa_supplicant and K95wpa_supplicant
If I rename by hand these links all work correctly until
something invoche a new chkconfig command.

Comment 1 Dan Williams 2008-01-25 02:03:40 UTC

moving the chkconfig priorities isn't the right thing to do, the right thing to
do is to make the network service request that wpa_supplicant be started in the
LSB initscript.  it can't be made a hard dependency because that would break
network-mounted-usr, if we care about that any more.

Also, having it the other way around would cause the supplicant to _always_ be
started, irregardless of whether there's actually a wireless card or not.

I think, really that ifup-wireless should start the supplicant on-demand instead
of depending on sysvinit ordering.

Comment 2 Dan Williams 2008-01-25 02:06:28 UTC

What should really happen here is that ifup-wireless should grow the ability to
figure out when WPA might be used or not (based on keys in the ifcfg files
perhaps) and start the supplicant if WPA is required.  Somebody needs to step up
and do that though...  initscript orderings aren't the way to do this because
there are too many corner-cases.

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Comment 4 Peter Lemenkov 2008-12-11 21:15:26 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 244029 ***