Bug 141292

Summary:	NetworkManager does not read ifcfg-files for WLAN devices
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x <forgotten_ZhJd0F0L3x>
Component:	Network	Assignee:	Robert Love <rml>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Critical
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	gnome-bugs, yast2-maintainers
Version:	Alpha 4
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Found By:	Component Test	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	140732

Description Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-01-03 19:28:07 UTC

To test NM with my setup, i configured my interfaces with Yast and then switched to Network manager by clicking "Managed by Network Manager".
These are the ifcfg-files:
strolchi:/etc/sysconfig/network # cat ifcfg-eth-id-00\:12\:79\:59\:37\:34
BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST=''
IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='20'
IPADDR='10.10.129.126'
MTU=''
NAME='Hewlett-Packard Company NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express'
NETMASK='255.255.0.0'
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='ifplugd'
UNIQUE='rBUF.pSVHHPgiS3B'
USERCONTROL='no'
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:10:00.0'
strolchi:/etc/sysconfig/network # cat ifcfg-wlan-id-00\:0e\:35\:b0\:c9\:9e
BOOTPROTO='static'
BROADCAST=''
IFPLUGD_PRIORITY='10'
IPADDR='10.10.129.126'
MTU=''
NAME='Hewlett-Packard Company PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter'
NETMASK='255.255.0.0'
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='ifplugd'
UNIQUE='JNkJ.EU1Le8cv1T7'
USERCONTROL='yes'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='eap'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CA_CERT='/etc/cert/cacert.pem'
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH=''
WIRELESS_EAP_MODE='ttls'
WIRELESS_ESSID='wpa2-test'
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID=''
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY='idonttell'
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD='gofigureitout'
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=''
_nm_name='bus-pci-0000:02:04.0'

NM correctly sets up the wired interface, but apparently it does not honor the settings for the wireless interface. I also cannot connect to wpa2-test in neither knetworkmanager nor nm-applet (i get only the networks found by scanning, but not the hidden wpa2-test i configured)

There might also be a yast bug in there because although i clicked on "managed by..." there is still "startmode=ifplugd" in the ifcfg-files (in fact they did not change at all).

Comment 1 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-01-03 19:28:57 UTC

of course the setup works without any problems when not using NM but ifplugd.

Comment 2 Robert Love 2006-01-03 19:37:44 UTC

What does 'does not honor' mean?

It ups the interface but uses DHCP?  Or it does not work at all?

The only settings that NM pulls from ifcfg- are static IP settings.

Since WPA is not-yet-implemented, that won't work, either.

Comment 3 Forgotten User ZhJd0F0L3x 2006-01-03 20:09:13 UTC

"does not honor" means there is a dhcdbd running although none of the interfaces is configured for dhcp (i'm not sure if this is a bug) and it does not try to associate to wpa2-test (which is a hidden essid) nor show it in nm-applet or knetworkmanager. Which is kind of normal if it doesn't pull this setting from ifcfg :-)

It probably just could use ifup for wireless instead of implementing everything by itself?

Comment 4 Robert Love 2006-01-03 20:16:49 UTC

Yes, dhcdbd should sitll be running.

As I said, the wireless settings are not used from ifcfg and WPA is not yet supported.

So I don't see a bug here.

Comment 5 Robert Love 2006-01-03 20:17:12 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 134238 ***