Bug 173785 - Need delay between ifup-wireless and checking link status
Summary: Need delay between ifup-wireless and checking link status
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: initscripts
Version: 4
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Bill Nottingham
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-11-21 05:27 UTC by Anton Solovyev
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 8.38-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2006-08-07 18:29:57 UTC
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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.
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