"network" service fails to set wireless parameters.

Björn Persson bjorn at xn--rombobjrn-67a.se
Thu Nov 15 00:19:56 UTC 2012


Dan Williams wrote:
> Could be because your wifi adapter is a recent one, and thus uses the
> preferred upstream nl80211 kernel configuration API.

It's an Intel PRO/Wireless 2200bg, so not exactly recent.

> In addition, the wext api of "operation 1, then operation 2, then
> operation 3" simply doesn't work well for newer devices, and never
> worked very well for old ones, and it's possible that the driver for
> your wifi device doesn't like the sequence that the initscripts use. 

When I use iwconfig manually I have to set the mode before the SSID and 
the channel, if that's what you mean.

You don't seem to think the problem is in my ifcfg file, so I filed a bug 
report:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=876786

Björn Persson



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