[arch-general] Netcfg after resume from suspend

[Ng Oon-Ee]

On Fri, 2010-01-29 at 10:36 -0500, Alexander Lam wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:42 PM, Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi all, I'm using netcfg and recently have been noticing the following.
> >
> > When I resume from suspend I call 'netcfg home' which tries to connect
> > to my home's wifi network. ESSID and WEP key are correctly set. It
> > exist with a 'could not obtain IP address error, this is the dmesg:-
> >
> > Registered led device: iwl-phy0::radio
> > Registered led device: iwl-phy0::assoc
> > Registered led device: iwl-phy0::RX
> > Registered led device: iwl-phy0::TX
> > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): wlan0: link is not ready
> > wlan0: direct probe to AP 00:14:7c:be:39:ac (try 1)
> > wlan0: direct probe responded
> > wlan0: authenticate with AP 00:14:7c:be:39:ac (try 1)
> > wlan0: authenticated
> > wlan0: associate with AP 00:14:7c:be:39:ac (try 1)
> > wlan0: RX AssocResp from 00:14:7c:be:39:ac (capab=0x471 status=0 aid=1)
> > wlan0: associated
> > ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): wlan0: link becomes ready
> > wlan0: no IPv6 routers present
> > wlan0: deauthenticating from 00:14:7c:be:39:ac by local choice (reason=3)
> >
> > The weird thing is that when I run 'iwconfig wlan0 essid MYESSID key
> > MYKEY', then run 'netcfg home' again it works no problem. Suggestions
> > for what I can check out are welcome. This happens both on stock
> > kernel and my custom -ice kernel, am up-to-date (without testing for
> > now, due to my openoffice variant not being done yet).
> >
> 
> Perhaps you need to change DHCP_TIMEOUT in the network profile to be longer?

Thanks, I should have mentioned that this isn't a timeout issue,
extending it to several minutes did not help, while once I run iwconfig
prior to netcfg it connects in under 10 seconds.