wireless WPA at boot time

[max bianco]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Andrea <mariofutire at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Mike wrote:
>>
>> Andrea <mariofutire <at> googlemail.com> writes:
>>
>>
>> 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.
>

Everyone has their own priorities.

Max