Changing service startup order

Question

I use wpa_supplicant to configure the wireless connection. Now I have a problem in that the network service starts before wpa_supplicant so this happens:

Bringing up interface wlan0:  
Determining IP information for wlan0... failed; no link present.  Check cable?

When I after that restart the network service the wireless connection then gets an IP and works.

I was reading about altering the start order by changing the the start order number in the respective init script. This is it in wpa_suplicant:

# chkconfig:   - 23 88

And this is it in network:

# chkconfig: 2345 10 90

So if I understand correctly I could change the 23 to 9 and it would start before. Is it a good idea?

Answer 1

I tried to change the boot priority but it didn't work. There is a bug:

http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5794

So the solution was to give up on dhcp and set the address static in ifcfg-wlan0