Wifi problems (FC 6)

[Gene Heskett]

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.

>I hope this helps, thanks,
>
>Joe
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