Fedora 10 wireless timing out on bootup

[Jarod Wilson]

On Thursday 05 March 2009 14:41:30 Matthew Gillen wrote:
> Randy Cole wrote:
> > Under Fedora 10, my wireless is identified as eth1.  On bootup, stalls 
> > for a full minute until something times out.
> > 
> > How can I prevent Fedora from waiting?  This doesn't seem to be a 
> > problem in Ubuntu.
> 
> Try running system-config-network, and check the box that says "Controlled by
> NetworkManager", and un-check the box that says "Activate when computer starts".
> 
> The latter option is usually redundant with the former.

Just to explain a bit more what's going on here... Since the wireless device
is identified as eth1, rather than wlan0, NM probably thinks its a wired
connection, and thus tries to start it earlier. Is that an out-of-tree wireless
driver by chance?

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Jarod Wilson
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