On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 07:48 +0000, Mike C wrote: > Aaron Konstam <akonstam <at> sbcglobal.net> writes: > > > this may be irrelevant but in f7 I get: > > [root <at> cyrus ~]# chkconfig --list |grep wpa > > wpa_supplicant 0:off 1:off 2:off 3:off 4:off 5:off 6:off > > 8. > > I use NM which runs wpa_supplicant. How does that compare with > > what you are trying to do in f8? > > Well firstly I am not using NM at all as I want the wireless to come up without > reference to the desktop - if I unset wpa_supplicant running at boot time then I > would get the same chkconfig --list output as you do above. Then once I am > booted up and logged in > service wpa_supplicant start > dhclient eth1 > > Then the wpa_supplicant daemon runs and wireless comes up just fine (the > interface is defined in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 ). > > I could easily add these two commands to /etc/rc.local but I wanted to do it the > easy way and simeply do chkconfig wpa_supplicant on, in which case the output > from chkconfig --list would have "on" for both runlevel 3 and 5. > > However it is with the latter set up that it won't start the deamon during boot. > Well another reason to use NM and make it simple (most of the time) but not in rl 3 I admit. -- ======================================================================= I'm hungry, time to eat lunch. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
