Bug 680521 - cannot manually configure the wireless network device
Summary: cannot manually configure the wireless network device
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: systemd
Version: rawhide
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Lennart Poettering
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-02-25 19:35 UTC by Thomas Meyer
Modified: 2011-04-04 18:47 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-04-04 18:47:53 UTC
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Description Thomas Meyer 2011-02-25 19:35:48 UTC
Description of problem:
Before Fedora 15 I could do this on the command line (no GDM or X server started)

1.) stop the NetworkManger service
2.) iwconfig the wireless device
3.) dhclient wlan0

This way I got a running network device on a non X server environment.

This doesn't work anymore in Fedora 15. When I do:

1.) systemctl stop NetworkManager.service
2.) iwconfig the wireless device
3.) dhclient wlan0

the dhclient call seems somehow start the NetworkManager. The NetworkManger takes over the wlan0 and my manual configuration is gone.

I needed to remove the NetworkManger.service file from /lib/systemd/system, to get a working network.

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Comment 1 Lennart Poettering 2011-02-28 19:58:29 UTC
This is mostly like fixed by recent changes to NM which make sure that nmctl does not trigger a NM startup, when it is called from the network scripts.


BTW, if you want to completely disable a service, you can "mask" it by symlinking /dev/null to it in /etc. Example: "ln -sf /dev/null /etc/systemd/system/NetworkManager.service".

Comment 2 Lennart Poettering 2011-04-04 18:47:53 UTC
I presume this is fixed in current F15. If not, reopen!


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