I'm trying to debug a 100% reproducable issue but don't really know
where to look for clues.
I have a Sony VAIO VGN-FZ240E, running 64bit Fedora 8.
It happens with many wifi networks that when I boot everything goes
fine, I can connect to the wifi network with nm-applet but as soon as
I lose the connection I will never be able reconnect. The networks in
question use pre-shared keys. If I reboot, everything will be fine
again, I can connect using the password, but as soon as I lose
connection the only way I can reconnect is by reboot.
Instead of rebooting I tried manually restarting all network related
services but that doesn't help. These are the services I restart in
this order from /etc/rc3.d that I guess are relevant:
service ip6tables restart
service iptables restart
service network restart
NetworkManager and network are two different competitive systems to
support networking. I don't say it would work but you should restart
NetworkManager not network.
Sure. But in /etc/rc3.d the order of the network related services is this:
ip6tables
iptables
network
NetworkManager
NetworkManagerDispatcher
So I've tried stopping all 5 services and starting them in the above
order, because they get started in the above order while booting. But
already the third service, 'network', fails and wlan doesn't come up.
If I nevertheless restart NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher
I can see the wireless network in question in nm-applet but can not
connect. I enter the pre-shared key password but it wouldn't connect,
it just gives back the password window.
If I reboot though the above 5 services are started in the above order
and everything works, wlan comes up and nm-applet can connect using
the same pre-shared key password.
So it seems to me that I need to do some additional steps manually to
completely reproduce what is happening at boot time. It just seems
impossible to me that I can not reproduce everything what is happening
at boot time, without actually rebooting but doing the same things
manually as root.
Any ideas where should I be looking for clues?
Thanks a lot,
Daniel
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