Network Manager / Default Keyring Very Slow Start

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Recently I purchased a new laptop and installed openSUSE 11.3 x64 Gnome. I was running openSUSE 11.2 x86 Gnome on my previous laptop. Most things are working well, although still tweaking things here and there.

The biggest issue at the moment is starting the network. When I boot the system it loads into desktop (gnome) no problem, but then takes between 3 - 5 minutes to come up asking for Default Keyring Password before it will launch network manager. Everything else has loaded and it running fine except the network.

The first time I launched the system (after install) it worked perfectly, however soon as a set the password for the Default Key this started happening. The time delay before it launches does vary each time but always around 3 minute mark.

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Hi,

Can you give the output of this command :

iwconfig
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After everything is booted and loaded the output is


lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:"d52e32f3"  
          Mode:Managed  Frequency:2.472 GHz  Access Point: 00:22:75:CD:FF:A6   
          Bit Rate=26 Mb/s   Tx-Power=20 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          Link Quality=35/70  Signal level=-75 dBm  
          Rx invalid nwid:0  Rx invalid crypt:0  Rx invalid frag:0
          Tx excessive retries:0  Invalid misc:0   Missed beacon:0

vmnet1    no wireless extensions.

vmnet8    no wireless extensions.

However after some digging the root of the problem seems to be that wlan0 & eth0 are not starting in up status. I can speed the whole process up by running ifconfig wlan0 up

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For added information here is the output of iwconfig before the network has initilized or it has asked me for the default keyring,


lo        no wireless extensions.

eth0      no wireless extensions.

wlan0     IEEE 802.11bgn  ESSID:off/any  
          Mode:Managed  Access Point: Not-Associated   Tx-Power=0 dBm   
          Retry  long limit:7   RTS thr:off   Fragment thr:off
          Encryption key:off
          Power Management:off
          
vmnet1    no wireless extensions.

vmnet8    no wireless extensions.
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Can You show us the content of /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 ?
Be sure to hide any wireless passwords if those are stored there.

Best regards,
Greg

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Here you go. This is the output while I’m connected to the network, although wasn’t any different when I wasn’t.


BOOTPROTO='dhcp'
BROADCAST=''
ETHTOOL_OPTIONS=''
IPADDR=''
MTU=''
NAME='AR928X Wireless Network Adapter (PCI-Express)'
NETMASK=''
NETWORK=''
REMOTE_IPADDR=''
STARTMODE='auto'
USERCONTROL='yes'
WIRELESS_AP=''
WIRELESS_AP_SCANMODE='1'
WIRELESS_AUTH_MODE='open'
WIRELESS_BITRATE='auto'
WIRELESS_CA_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CHANNEL=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_CERT=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY=''
WIRELESS_CLIENT_KEY_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_DEFAULT_KEY='0'
WIRELESS_EAP_AUTH=''
WIRELESS_EAP_MODE=''
WIRELESS_ESSID=''
WIRELESS_FREQUENCY=''
WIRELESS_KEY=''
WIRELESS_KEY_0=''
WIRELESS_KEY_1=''
WIRELESS_KEY_2=''
WIRELESS_KEY_3=''
WIRELESS_KEY_LENGTH='128'
WIRELESS_MODE='Managed'
WIRELESS_NICK=''
WIRELESS_NWID=''
WIRELESS_PEAP_VERSION=''
WIRELESS_POWER='yes'
WIRELESS_WPA_ANONID=''
WIRELESS_WPA_IDENTITY=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PASSWORD=''
WIRELESS_WPA_PSK=''
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Are You using network manager or ifup ? If You’re using network manager please try to rename the file

sudo mv /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0 /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-wlan0.bak

and reboot. If that doesn’t help I’m out of ideas what might be wrong.

Best regards,
Greg

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I shut off keyring and manually start Network manager each time i start. Done in under a minute.

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How do you shut off the Default Keyring in regards to Network Manager. I’ve searched around for a while to find out how to do this and still can’t seem to find out. Information on Default Keyring, other than what it is, is scarce at best.