F19: Wireless not working - dhclient not running?

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On 08/26/2013 05:14 PM, John Horne wrote:
> On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 15:46 -0500, g wrote:
>> hello john,
>>
>> On 08/26/2013 01:39 PM, John Horne wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Updated from F17 to F19 with a fresh install, and have hit a few
>>> problems. The main one is that my wireless interface does not come up
>>> (it is an Atheros AR9170 device).
>>
>> i do not recall exactly when something similar was 'threaded', but it
>> was a problem of timing as to just what starts when.
>>
>> awairc, solution was to start wlan last to give time for networking
>> time to finish configuring.
>>
>> sound reasonable?
>>
> Other way round I would say :-)
>
> wpa_supplicant must finish before the network starts, if it doesn't then
> the wireless interface won't come up. This was a problem years ago
> (Fedora 7 or so?) when the SYSV scripts started networking first, and
> then wireless. The fix was, as said, to start wpa_supplicant first.

so you are saying that one has to have wireless networking before any
networking can be?

does that not seem senseless for non wi-fi systems.


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