Strange behaviour with boottime loading of ipw2200

[Dumitru Ciobarcianu]

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:11 +0100, Rubin wrote: 
> Hi.
> 
> I started the thread. Someone responded that setting HWADDR
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 might make the problem
> disappear. 

Not for me.

[cioby at DustPuppy cioby]$ cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1
# Please read /usr/share/doc/initscripts-*/sysconfig.txt
# for the documentation of these parameters.
ONBOOT=no
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Wireless
DEVICE=eth1
HWADDR=00:16:6f:5f:ce:99
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
NETMASK=
DHCP_HOSTNAME=
IPADDR=
DOMAIN=
ESSID=xxxxxx
CHANNEL=1
MODE=Managed
RATE=


> And it did! After setting HWADDR with the MAC for the wireless card, the
> problem has not been encountered since.

It happens mostly on boot for me. It's probably an timing issue.
I don't boot much tho, thanks to suspend.

service network restart;service NetworkManager restart

fixes things for me.

> I guess it still is a problem, but it works. Not very nice for mom and
> pops at home trying out a user-friendly linux distro though.

The HWADDR line should be set by the installer / system-config-network,
not by hand so this is just a bug if not already.

-- 
Cioby