Wifi problems (FC 6)

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 09 June 2007, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 09 June 2007, Joe Barnett wrote:
> >Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Saturday 09 June 2007, Joe Barnett wrote:
> >>> Try running "ntpd -gq" at the end of rc.local to sync the clock.
> >>> Then kick off nptd (with your normal settings) following that.
> >>
> >> I'm not sure I understand that - what do you mean by the second
> >> statement?
> >
> >I apologize for the confusion.
> >
> >"ntpd -gq" runs the daemon only long enough to sync the clock, then
> >it quits.  Think of ntpdate.
>
> Which is exactly what it did the last time I studied that startup script
> in /etc/init.d.  It runs ntpdate once to crash synch the clock, and then
> runs the ntpd.
>
> >Why not just use ntpdate?  Good
> >question.  man ntpd indicates that ntpdate is going to be retired at
> >some point, and that ntpd -q should be used instead.  -q seems to
> >stand for quit (as soon as the clock is adjusted).  -g tells ntpd
> >not to exit with error if the offset is greater than 1000 seconds.
> >
> >I am not sure why they want to retire ntpdate as it seems a very
> >useful tool.  Anyway...
>
> I agree, however retiring such a usefull tool might be desirable from the
> standpoint of being replaced by a better way, possibly built into ntpd, but
> I've not noted any discussion about it.  And I'm of course not on a mailing
> list that would make me privy to that either.  I would hope that they would
> make an attempt at advising the users that there was a change coming first.
>
> >Both the stock ntpd and openntpd have features which should bring
> >the clock to good time as soon as they get a good feed from one or
> >more of the servers for which they are configured to use.  ntpd -gq,
> >in theory, should not be needed if either ntpd is going to be run as
> >a daemon.
> >
> >That being said, my experience (with both the stock ntpd and
> >openntpd) is that it is best to do a gross adjustment first (whether
> >by ntpd -gq, ntpdate, rdate, etc.) *then* start the daemon.  That is
> >why I use two commands to get my ntp stuff going.
>
> Which is what the current (fc6 anyway) startup script does.  Quite well in
> fact if the network is available at runtime.  In Anne's case, that can't be
> assumed.  Probably because its miss-configured in ways I'm not familiar
> with since I don't yet use wpa_supplicant, in fact its all done by the
> network script on my lappy.  The WEP key is actually listed in
> my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-wlan0 using the KEY=syntax but I
> have NDI if the WAP(2) key Anne is using could be similarly defined there
> or not.
>
> It might be worth a try, Anne.
>
ntpd was attempting to run before wpa_supplicant could join the network.  I'm 
torn between re-numbering it and removing it in favour of the two commands in 
rc.local.  I think I'll take those commands out again, for a trial, and see 
whether the re-numbering does the trick.

Anne


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