Re: NM before login?

[Eric Brunet lps ens fr]

Dans son message du lundi 11/05/09 à 11:04, Dan Williams a écrit:
> > Is there a way of establishing (and keeping)
> > a WiFi connection with NetworkManager
> > before logging in?
>
[...]
> 
> and after a reboot, you should be able to use the connection editor to
> mark your wifi connections as "Available to all users", which means they
> will be available before login.

Hi,

This wasn't working for me in Fedora 10, but I upgraded to Fedora 11 and
now it works nicely: the checkbox is no longer grayed out, I can check
it, a file ifcfg-Auto_xxx appears in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and
NetworkManager picks it at boot time.

However, /etc/rc.d/init.d/network picks it also. For each file
ifcfg-something in this repertory, the network service tries to run ifup
on it. For instance, I have an ifcfg-Auto_tudia which contains
	ESSID="tudia"
	MODE=Managed
	SECURITYMODE=open
	DEFAULTKEY=1
	TYPE=Wireless
	BOOTPROTO=dhcp
	PEERDNS=yes
	PEERROUTES=yes
	NAME="Auto tudia"
	UUID=12ea49ce-5559-4adb-bae7-d5e12f33ef82
	ONBOOT=yes
	LAST_CONNECT=1247345950
and if I run "ifup Auto_tudia", as is done at boot time by
/etc/rc.d/init.d/network, I see
	Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
	Try `grep --help' for more information.
	Usage: grep [OPTION]... PATTERN [FILE]...
	Try `grep --help' for more information.
	
	Determining IP information for ... failed; no link present.  Check cable?
The timeout takes 6 seconds.

Actually, I have serveral wireless networks for NetworkManager of the
form ifcfg-Auto_xxx, and for each of them I have the two error messages
from grep and the 6 second timeout.

In the end, everything works, but this minor problem makes booting take a
longer time ! How can I avoid that ?

I tried to set ONBOOT=no in the file. /etc/rc.d/init.d/network now
ignores them, but it seems that NetworkManager ignores them also.
I tried to leave ONBOOT=yes and stop /etc/rc.d/init.d/network from being
run at all, but then I don't have anymore a loopback interface.

1) Is there a solution to avoid the delays ?
2) Shouldn't this solution be on by default when nm-connection-editor
   creates the files ?
3) why does ifup choke on these ifcfg files ?

Thanks,

	Éric Brunet