Re: NM not seeing mi wireless until I restart service

[Louis E Garcia II <louisg00 bellsouth net>]

On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 18:35 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 16:29 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 12:49 -0500, Louis E Garcia II wrote:
> >>> Not sure what changed between fc6test3 and fc6 but NetworkManager is not
> >>> seeing my ipw3945 when booting. When I login I have to restart the
> >>> NetworkManager service for wireless to work.
> >>
> >> Can you post some logs from /var/log/messages?  Better yet, get root,
> >> then do:
> >>
> >> service NetworkManager stop
> >> /usr/sbin/NetworkManager --no-daemon
> >>
> >> let it run for 30 seconds, then mail the output here.  Hit Ctrl-C to
> >> stop it.
> >>
> >> Dan
> >>
> >>> I noticed when running fc6test3 NM scanned for network devices more than
> >>> once. With fc6 NM scans only once. Is this correct?
> >>>
> >>> -Louis
> >>>
> >
> > What below shows is NM working fine when the service is started
> > manually. The problem is at boot, see boot.log attachment. NM does not
> > see eth1 which is the wlan card. I start ipw3945d, the regulatory
> > daemon, from rc.local.
> 
> That's probably too late.  rc.local is the last step in boot, after all 
> regular services (including NM) are started.
> 
> You might try starting from /etc/sysconfig/modules/.  That happens very 
> early in the boot process.  You just need a script called 
> <something>.moduless that starts the daemon dropped in that directory and 
> executable by root.
> 
> I don't have one though, so I don't know if there is an "approved" or 
> built-in startup for that daemon.

Yes I have a file in /etc/modprobe.d/ that executes the daemon when the
module loads. It works fine when installing the module at the command
line. This does not work at boot because userland is not yet setup.
Therefor running ipw3945d again in rc.local is necessary. Maybe I should
create a full init script and run it before NM.

What I don't get is that I had this working in fc6t3 this exact way.

-Louis