wireless WPA at boot time

[Andrea]

Mike wrote:
> Andrea <mariofutire <at> googlemail.com> writes:
> 
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> What I do is to get my wpa_supplicant config working -
> (/etc/wpa_supplicant/wpa_supplicant.conf and /etc/sysconfig/wpa_supplicant)
> such that "service wpa_supplicant start" (as root) does work correctly.
> Then set it to start at boot using "chkconfig wpa_supplicant on"
> 
> Next I use dhclient to get an ip address - test by doing 
> dhclient wlan0 
> or equivalent  - once it works then I add two lines to /etc/rc.local
> /bin/sleep 2
> /sbin/dhclient wlan0

I think you use an alternative to solve the same problem.
Why /etc/init.d/network has priority 10
while wpa-supplicant has priority 23?
This means that the network starts before wpa_supplicant ?!?!?!?!?!?
But anyway, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-wireless does not support WPA...

I will reimplement exactly what I did in Fedora 7, but it strikes me that nobody cares about that 
and the big thing is the desktop integration in a Windows-like manner.

> 
> then it all works irrespective of the desktop and I don't need to worry about it
> any more... works in KDE or GNOME...
> 
> HTH
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