<div class="gmail_quote">On 10 August 2011 18:02, Johan.van der Kolk <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johan.van.der.kolk1@telenet.be">johan.van.der.kolk1@telenet.be</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 08/10/2011 04:50 PM, mythtv . wrote:<br>
>> The really tricky part these days is that some distros like Ubuntu have<br>
>> tried to dump init in general and are using alternatives like upstart. While<br>
>> init scripts had their problems, they were widely used and well (enough)<br>
>> understood.<br>
> I agree! I had no end of trouble with a FE where mythtv would start<br>
> before the wireless was connected. Ended up budging it with a delay in<br>
> the mythftontend script before switching to being wired into a<br>
> wireless bridge so I could shorten the delay as I couldn't control the<br>
> order of thongs starting up<br>
><br>
</div></div>Encountered the same problem, specially since "network up" in upstart<br>
does not mean that the PC got an IP address, or even a working<br>
connection. My solution was not to start the FE until I had a successful<br>
ping to the router.<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br></div></div></blockquote><div>Mine was a bit more crude than that. I had a separate startup script for mythfrontend with sleep 10 at the start to allow the wireless to come up! Then I put dd-wrt on a spare wireless router and turned it into a bridge which meant I could wire to the bridge via ethernet and reduce the startup delay significantly but still found I needed 3 or 4 seconds.Its a mythfrontend in the bedroom which is not often used so the quick and dirty hack worked well enough. I did think about pinging the FE first but if to be honest didnt have the time or inclination to sort it out!</div>
<div><br></div><div>I did switch the wireless to using wicd rather than network-manager (I prefer the wicd UI and it can be made to start at boot time)</div><div><br></div><div>Martin</div></div><br>