FS#14968 - Smarter rc.d/network, responds faster to wireless association.

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Stephen (wingedsubmariner) - Friday, 05 June 2009, 23:49 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 15:12 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
The current /etc/rc.d/network sleeps the entire WIRELESS_TIMOUT before checking if a wireless interface has associated with its base station. With the attached patch, it will now check every second up to WIRELESS_TIMOUT seconds to see if association has completed. WIRELESS_TIMEOUT can also be set to -1, which bypasses this check entirely for faster booting (but potentially more confusing error messages down the road).

Additional info:
initscripts 2009.03-2

Steps to reproduce:
Configure a wireless interface in rc.conf
/etc/rc.d/network start
   network.patch (0.6 KiB)
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Saturday, 06 June 2009, 15:12 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#13299 
Comment by Stephen (wingedsubmariner) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 00:00 GMT
Oops, I didn't see bug #13299 before posting this. My patch is still useful but doesn't resolve the issue discussed there, though it could be part of a solution.
Comment by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi (djgera) - Saturday, 06 June 2009, 06:34 GMT
Please post the patch in the  FS#13299 . So can close this duplicate task. Thanks.

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