[Mageia-dev] Can't win - or, best of both worlds . . .!

Sat Nov 24 06:36:57 CET 2012

On 11/23/2012 11:12 AM, Olivier Blin wrote:
+> Frank Griffin <ftg at roadrunner.com> writes:
+>
+>>
+>> "Can't win" is appropriate.  You may want to check the comments in bug#8169.
+>>
+>> Apart from any net-applet crash, ifplugd is failing to start wireless
+>> interfaces with current kernels
+> Hi,
+>
+> Do you have any more details about this?
+> It works fine here.
+>
+> Also check that you are using initscripts 9.34-30.mga3
+>
+
+This all started with https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7849 , but 
+I'd swear there was discussion in the ML beyond what's in the bug 
+report, because I recall others reporting similar problems with the same 
+kernel.  Or maybe my memory is as bad as it usually is, and the other 
+reports were for the same kernel on non-Mageia systems that I found by 
+googling.
+
+I haven't tested since, because this was the straw on the camel's back 
+that finally got me to pull enough teeth to find out that NM won't work 
+in KDE without manual intervention.  Once I got NM to work, I never went 
+back.
+
+However, bug#8169 references a BCM chip rather than an RTL chip, and 
+while my laptop with the RTL chip is still out of commission, my new one 
+has a BCM chip, so I can try a new install and retest ifplugd with 
+current cauldron.  I hadn't bothered to date, since no one ever updated 
+bug#7849 to indicate that anything had been done about it.
+