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

[Frank Griffin]

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.