Re: networking question : wpa_supplicant, ifplugd and interfaces

[B Thomas <thomas.1037@osu.edu>]

Hi,
Thanks once again for all your help.

I did remove the auto line from /etc/networking/interfaces
It did speed up the boot process, by cutting the time spent
on dhcp discover. 

However very early in the boot process kernel module ipw3945
does still get loaded but the binary daemon does not get
started at the same time. Also to get wireless working I
still need to manually run

modprobe -r ipw3945
# which causes the module and daemon to be restarted !
/etc/init.d/wparoamd stop
/etc/init.d/wparoamd start

I wonder if the problem is in /etc/rc2.d where the links are :
S15wparoamd
S20ifplugd

I guess I can always link the above commands to S99local but would
really like to understand and fix this if possible.

Also my /etc/modules file is empty so that can't be the cause of ipw3945
being loaded during boot.

regards
b thomas


On Mon, May 15, 2006 at 11:57:52PM -0600, Stefan Srdic wrote:
> With ifplugd you should only have the loopback automatically configured
> at boot. ifplugd will bring the devices up and down depending on their
> state. Comment out the auto eth0 & eth1 lines and see how ifplugd behaves.
> 
> Stefan