Bug#765400: networking.service started too early - PCMCIA NIC not brought up

[Charles-François Natali]

Package: systemd
Version: 215-5+b1


Since systemd made it to Jessie, my wireless network interface - which
is a PCMCIA card - is randomly not brought up upon startup.

One can see this in the logs:
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox wpa_supplicant[311]: Could not read interface
wlan1 flags: No such device
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox wpa_supplicant[311]: Could not read interface
wlan1 flags: No such device
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox wpa_supplicant[311]: Could not read interface
wlan1 flags: No such device
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox wpa_supplicant[311]: WEXT: Could not set
interface 'wlan1' UP
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox wpa_supplicant[311]: wlan1: Failed to
initialize driver interface
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox networking[251]: run-parts:
/etc/network/if-pre-up.d/wpasupplicant exited with return code 1
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox networking[251]: Failed to bring up wlan1.
oct. 14 18:43:16 neobox networking[251]: done.

Indeed, the NIC is only probed later (probably when systemd-udevd runs
because it's a PCMCIA card):
oct. 14 18:43:17 neobox kernel: rt2500pci 0000:02:00.0: enabling
device (0000 -> 0002)
oct. 14 18:43:17 neobox kernel: ieee80211 phy1: rt2x00_set_chip: Info
- Chipset detected - rt: 2560, rf: 0003, rev: 0004
oct. 14 18:43:17 neobox kernel: ieee80211 phy1: Selected rate control
algorithm 'minstrel_ht'
oct. 14 18:43:17 neobox systemd-udevd[484]: renamed network interface
wlan0 to wlan1


This is pretty random, but occurs at least 1 out of 4 boots, and is
rather annoying.

I'm include the output of "systemctl list-dependencies" and
journalctl, but don't hesitate if any more information is needed.

Cheers,
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