Bug 129610 - ipw2200 wireless only works after "rcnetwork restart"
Summary: ipw2200 wireless only works after "rcnetwork restart"
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Network (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: i586 SuSE Linux 10.0
: P5 - None : Major
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Assignee: Joachim Gleissner
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Reported: 2005-10-19 23:54 UTC by Joachim Werner
Modified: 2007-06-05 10:04 UTC (History)
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hwinfo (214.75 KB, text/plain)
2005-10-19 23:56 UTC, Joachim Werner 		Details
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan-id-00:0e:35:9c:1a:c8 (713 bytes, text/plain)
2005-10-20 00:10 UTC, Joachim Werner 		Details
rcnetwork status/restart (2.89 KB, text/plain)
2005-10-20 00:12 UTC, Joachim Werner 		Details
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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.