"network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

[Björn Persson]

Dan Williams wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-11-06 at 21:47 +0100, Björn Persson wrote:
> > I have a Wifi card that is supposed to be managed by the "network"
> > service. The interface's IP addresses, prefixes, routes and all that
> > get assigned correctly on boot, but the wireless parameters – mode,
> > ESSID and channel – do not get assigned. I have to set those
> > manually with the iwconfig command.
> > 
> > I've had this card working before, but I've hacked the ifcfg file
> > since then. (I've had lots of networking problems since I installed
> > Fedora 17, so I've been editing the configuration a lot.) It's
> > possible that I've missed something, so before I file a bug report
> > I wanted to ask: Does anyone see anything wrong with the ifcfg file
> > below?
> 
> Is NetworkManager enabled?  Run "systemctl status
> NetworkManager.service" to find out; it looks like this connection is
> supposed to be managed by NetworkManager.

Network Manager is enabled and running, but it manages only one of my 
three physical interfaces. I tried letting it manage this one, but then 
the interface sometimes got its address on boot, and sometimes not. 
Apparently there was some race condition. After I set NM_CONTROLLED=no 
it behaves consistently, only the wireless parameters don't get set.

Björn Persson