Bug 129610

Summary:	ipw2200 wireless only works after "rcnetwork restart"
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Joachim Werner <joe>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Joachim Gleissner <joachim.gleissner>
Status:	VERIFIED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Major
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i586
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Attachments:	hwinfo /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-00:0e:35:9c:1a:c8 rcnetwork status/restart

Description Joachim Werner 2005-10-19 23:54:34 UTC

On an Aldi Notebook (hwinfo attached) that had no network problems with SL 9.3, 
I did an update to SL 10.0. 
 
Now the wireless network never works after booting up. 
 
An rcnetwork status shows that the interface is waiting for DHCP, and the last 
line says: 
 
EAP state=FAILURE 
 
After one rcnetwork restart and waiting for the IP address from DHCP, things 
work as expected, and rcnetwork status reports 
 
EAP state=IDLE 
 
Whatever the EAP state is, it seems to be related to the problem. 
 
Is there anything else I should attach?

Comment 1 Joachim Werner 2005-10-19 23:56:46 UTC

Created attachment 54859 [details]
hwinfo

Comment 2 Joachim Werner 2005-10-20 00:10:29 UTC

Created attachment 54861 [details]
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-00:0e:35:9c:1a:c8

Comment 3 Joachim Werner 2005-10-20 00:12:24 UTC

Created attachment 54862 [details]
rcnetwork status/restart

Comment 4 Joachim Werner 2005-10-20 00:13:34 UTC

I've tried both the hotplug and on boot start options for the wireless interface. It makes no difference.

Comment 5 Joachim Gleissner 2005-10-20 09:46:29 UTC

Anything in /var/log/messages? The problem should disappear when you add PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT="no" to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-00:0e:35:9c:1a:c8 .

Comment 6 Joachim Werner 2005-10-20 10:02:02 UTC

I haven't found anything useful in /var/log/messages. Any hints what I should be looking for?

PREFER_WPA_SUPPLICANT="no"

seems to help.

Comment 7 Joachim Werner 2005-11-14 11:45:17 UTC

Assigning back.

Comment 8 Joachim Gleissner 2006-02-09 17:18:33 UTC

I've changed the default to "no" in 10.1.