"network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

[Dan Williams]

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.

Dan

> Björn Persson
> 
> 
> DEVICE=wifi
> NAME="Wifi"
> HWADDR=00:16:6f:a9:95:34
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> BOOTPROTO=none
> ONBOOT=yes
> TYPE=Wireless
> IPADDR0=192.168.96.1
> PREFIX0=24
> DEFROUTE=no
> IPV4_FAILURE_FATAL=yes
> IPV6INIT=yes
> IPV6_AUTOCONF=no
> IPV6ADDR=2002:57e3:175f:96::1/64
> IPV6_DEFAULTGW=::
> IPV6_DEFROUTE=no
> IPV6_FAILURE_FATAL=no
> DNS1=192.168.72.5
> DOMAIN=xn--rombobjrn-67a.se.
> USERCTL=no
> ESSID=Rombo
> MODE=Ad-Hoc
> SECURITYMODE=off
> CHANNEL=7
> RATE=auto
> RTS=off
> FRAG=off
>