Henry Tung

I haven't identified exactly what module load or trigger causes the network device to appear - waiting for 10 seconds during generator execution doesn't do the trick, so there is something explicit that happens post-initramfs stage that allows wlan0 to be instantiated, and if I understand the comment thread correctly, having the initramfs handle it would be the intended fix. Have to do some testing to figure out which module/firmware/etc. though, so that will have to wait for a few days until I have some time with the system to experiment.

See https://github.com/canonical/netplan/pull/456#discussion_r1569065581 The way the netplan + networkd integration is designed requires all the network devices (wlan0 in particular) to exist at /sbin/init time - otherwise, the netplan generator disables `systemd-networkd-wait-online.service` which also causes `network-online.target` to be reached early. In particular, this breaks any network FS mounts on boot. Of note, I tried logging in to file the bug via the dev contribution platform, but it looks I'm blocked from JIRA access, so am filing it here instead.