Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 249935
cannot prevent wireless connection from starting at boot
Last modified: 2008-06-16 21:59:37 EDT
Description of problem: As described in bug 249932, my wireless connection does not work as expected. During boot, it tries to acquire IP address from the AP and fails for obvious reasons (see bug 249932). However, it takes at least 30-40 seconds before reporting a failure. In order to prevent the starting of the wireless connection during boot, I actually commented out the line in /etc/modprobe.conf -> #alias wlan0 iwl3945 to ensure that the kernel driver is not loaded at boot. Inspite of that, the bootup scripts continue to load the iwl3945 kernel module (as verified by "lsmod") and attempt to start the wireless connection! Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): wireless-tools-28-4.fc7 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. simply boot 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: If /etc/modprobe.conf does not have an entry for the wireless driver module, then that driver module should not be loaded into the kernel and therefore, no attempt should be made to start the wireless connection.
As a temporary workaround, I changed the ONBOOT field to "no" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 and that now avoids this whole problem. But the main problem still remains since the wireless driver is loaded even if its disabled in /etc/modprobe.conf.
(In reply to comment #1) > But the main problem still remains since the wireless driver is > loaded even if its disabled in /etc/modprobe.conf. What I meant was that if I change back ONBOOT to "yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0, then the wireless driver is loaded even if its disabled in /etc/modprobe.conf.
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