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From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug?
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 03:23:38
Message-Id: CAOdo=SwyK0rV0bEcJJVBkCV09d-=0F5StKaEW6Zx+cEv6LHaFw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] [systemd] Is this a NetworkManager bug? by walt
1 On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 7:39 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > I just switched my home LAN from wired to all wifi and I'm having trouble
4 > with NetworkManager at boot time.
5 >
6 > I have systemd start NetworkManager at boot because I need the internet
7 > for ntpdate and to start the nfs server for the LAN. Before I switched
8 > to all-wireless this method worked perfectly, but no longer.
9 >
10 > After bootup I see that NetworkManager started wpa_supplicant in the
11 > background, but apparently does *not* run dhcpcd. (The wlan0 is up
12 > but it has no IP address and the routing table is empty.)
13 >
14 > As an alternative to NetworkManager I can have systemd start dhcpcd
15 > at boot, which almost (but not quite) works well enough. This
16 > causes a race condition because wlan0 takes several seconds to come
17 > up properly and by then both ntpdate and nfs-server have already
18 > run and failed.
19 >
20 > So, I asked myself, why not have systemd start dhcpcd at boot in
21 > addition to NetworkManager?
22 >
23 > The reason that fails is that they both start wpa_supplicant in
24 > the background and the two instances interfere with each other.
25 >
26 > Anyone see a way around this catch22?
27
28 Do you have "All users may connect" unticked in the NM applet or
29 "permissions=user:walt:;" in the NM connection's config?

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