Re: Wireless disabled on startup

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Wed, 2010-05-12 at 11:10 +0200, David Björkevik wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> Just got a new laptop, a Lenovo IdeaPad S12.  After installing Fedora
> 12, everything is working smoothly, but I have an annoying problem with
> NetworkManager: when it starts up, wireless networking is disabled.  I
> have to manually enable it by right-clicking the icon.  This is very
> annoying, since it takes a while for it to find the network, so this
> adds to the boot->browsing time.

Can you grab some logs from /var/log/messages or /var/log/daemon.log
that show NM startup?  That should tell us more about the issue.

Also, grab:

rfkill list
cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/type
cat /sys/class/rfkill/*/state

just to figure out what the rfkill status is.

dan

> I'd like some clues on how NetworkManager decides upon the status of
> wireless networking on startup, to see if I can work around this
> problem. As a last resort, I'll have to write a hack that enables
> wireless networking on startup using dbus (which should be possible, right?)
> 
> Regards,
> David
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